#influenced! The impact of social media influencing on self-esteem and the role of social comparison and resilience.

Social media influencers (SMIs) are online personas that acquire significant audiences on social networking sites (SNS) and have become a prevalent part of social media. Previous research indicates potentially detrimental effects of social media use on mental well-being, however, little is known about whether, how, and for whom online comparisons with SMIs lead to adverse psychological effects. In this study, we investigate the impact of positivity-biased images of female SMIs on the state self-esteem of female participants while considering social comparison processes as mediating and individual resilience as moderating factors.

Measuring Motivation for Cognitive Effort as State.

People's motivation to engage in cognitive effort is a variable which is relevant in different psychological domains (e.g., social cognition research).

Students' Perception of Teachers' Reference Norm Orientation and Cheating in the Classroom.

Students' cheating is a serious problem: It undermines the chance to adequately promote, support, and evaluate them. To explain cheating behavior, research seldom focuses on perceived teachers' characteristics. Thus, we investigate the relationship between students' cheating behavior and an important teacher characteristic, individual reference norm orientation (IRNO; i.

Effects of a brief psychological intervention on students' sense of belonging and educational outcomes: The role of students' migration and educational background.

Disadvantaged students who or whose parents immigrated (i.e., migration background) and first-generation students (i.

Knowing One's Place: Parental Educational Background Influences Social Identification with Academia, Test Anxiety, and Satisfaction with Studying at University.

First-generation students (i.e., students whose parents did not attend university) often experience difficulties fitting in with the social environment at universities.

Listening, not watching: situational familiarity and the ability to detect deception.

In 4 experiments, the authors investigated the influence of situational familiarity with the judgmental context on the process of lie detection. They predicted that high familiarity with a situation leads to a more pronounced use of content cues when making judgments of veracity. Therefore, they expected higher classification accuracy of truths and lies under high familiarity.