PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
— 2024 (and in press) —
Stein, J.-P., Messingschlager, T., Gnambs, T., Hutmacher, F., & Appel, M. (2024). Attitudes towards AI: Measurement and associations with personality. Scientific Reports, 14, 2909.
Stein, J.-P., & MacDorman, K. F. (2024). After confronting one uncanny valley, another awaits. Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering.
— 2023 —
Appel, M., Hutmacher, F., Politt, T., & Stein, J.-P. (2023). Swipe right? Using beauty filters in male Tinder profiles reduces women's evaluations of trustworthiness but increases physical attractiveness and dating intention. Computers in Human Behavior, 168, 107871.
Breves, P. L., & Stein, J.-P. (2023). Be positive? The interplay of Instagram influencers' body type and favorable user comments on young women's perceptions, affective well-being, and exercise intentions. Psychology of Popular Media.
Breves, P. L., & Stein, J.-P. (2023). Cognitive load in immersive media settings: The role of spatial presence and cybersickness. Virtual Reality, 27, 1077–1089.
Grundke, A., Stein, J.-P., & Appel, M. (2023). Improving evaluations of advanced robots by depicting them in harmful situations. Computers in Human Behavior, 140, 107565.
Stein, J.-P. (2023). Smile back at me, but only once: Social norms of appropriate nonverbal intensity and reciprocity apply to emoji use. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47, 245–266.
Stein, J.-P., & Banks, J. (2023). Valenced media effects on robot-related attitudes and mental models: A parasocial contact approach. Human–Machine Communication, 6, 155–182.
Stein, J.-P., Scheufen, S., & Appel, M. (2023). Recognizing the beauty in diversity: Exposure to body-positive content on social media broadens women's concept of ideal body weight. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
— 2022 —
Grundke, A., Stein, J.-P., & Appel, M. (2022). Mind-reading machines: Distinct user responses to thought-detecting and emotion-detecting robots. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 3(1).
Stein, J.-P., Breves, P. L., & Anders, N. (2022). Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness. New Media & Society.
Stein, J.-P., Cimander, P., & Appel, M. (2022). Power-posing robots: The influence of a humanoid robot's posture and size on its perceived dominance, competence, eeriness, and threat. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 1413–1422.
Stein, J.-P., Koban, K., Joos, S., & Ohler, P. (2022). Worth the effort? Comparing different YouTube vlog production styles in terms of viewers' identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(3), 426–436.
Stein, J.-P., Liebers, N., & Faiss, M. (2022). Feeling better...but also less lonely? An experimental investigation of how parasocial and social relationships affect people's well-being. Mass Communication and Society.
Weber, S., Messingschlager, T., & Stein, J.-P. (2022). This is an Insta-vention! Exploring cognitive countermeasures to reduce negative consequences of social comparisons on Instagram. Media Psychology, 25(3), 411–440.
— 2021 —
Mara, M., Stein, J.-P., Latoschik, M. E., Lugrin, B., Schreiner, C., Hostettler, R., & Appel, M. (2021). User responses to a humanoid robot observed in real life, virtual reality, 3D and 2D. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 633178.
Stein, J.-P. (2021). Conjuring up the departed in virtual reality—The good, the bad, and the potentially ugly. Psychology of Popular Media, 10(4), 505–510.
Stein, J.-P., & Appel, M. (2021). How to deal with researcher harassment in the social sciences. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 178–180.
Stein, J.-P., Krause, E., & Ohler, P. (2021). Every (Insta)gram counts? Applying cultivation theory to explore the effects of Instagram on young users' body image. Psychology of Popular Media, 10(1), 87–97.
Stein, J.-P., & Yeo, J. (2021). Investigating meal-concurrent media use: Social and dispositional predictors, intercultural differences, and the novel media phenomenon of 'mukbang' eating broadcasts. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(5), 956–968.
— 2020 —
Stein, J.-P., Appel, M., Jost, A., & Ohler, P. (2020). Matter over mind? How the acceptance of digital entities depends on their appearance, mental prowess, and the interaction between both. International Journal of Human—Computer-Studies, 142, 102463.
— 2019 —
Appel, M., Krisch, N., Stein, J.-P., & Weber, S. (2019). Smartphone zombies! Pedestrians' distracted walking as a function of their fear of missing out. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63,, 130–133.
Stein, J.-P., Liebold, B., & Ohler, P. (2019). Stay back, clever thing! Linking situational control and human uniqueness concerns to the aversion against autonomous technology. Computers in Human Behavior, 95, 73–82.
— 2018 —
Koban, K., Stein, J.-P., Eckhardt, V., & Ohler, P. (2018). Quid pro quo in Web 2.0. Connecting personality traits and Facebook usage intensity to uncivil commenting intentions in public online discussions. Computers in Human Behavior, 79, 9–18.
Stein, J.-P., Lu, X., & Ohler, P. (2018). Mutual perceptions of Chinese and German students at a German university: Stereotypes, media influence, and evidence for a negative contact hypothesis. Compare, 49(6), 943–963.
Stein, J.-P., & Ohler, P. (2018). Saving face in front of the computer? Culture and attributions of human likenes influence users' experience of automatic facial emotion recognition. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5, 18.
Stein, J.-P., & Ohler, P. (2018). Uncanny...but convincing? Inconsistency between a virtual agent's facial proportions and vocal realism reduces its credibility and attractiveness, but not its persuasive success. Interacting with Computers, 30(6), 480–491.
— 2017 —
Stein, J.-P., & Ohler, P. (2017). Venturing into the uncanny valley of mind—The influence of mind attribution on the acceptance of human-like characters in a virtual reality setting. Cognition, 160, 43–50.
