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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · 21d

thank you so so much 🫶🫶🫶

Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · 21d

I am so happy and honored to receive this year's SAGE Emerging Scholar Award! 🎉

Immensely grateful to @spspnews.bsky.social, and huge congratulations to all awardees!! 👏

Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 21d

SPSP is excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 SAGE Emerging Scholar Award!

Congratulations to @chrbuettner.bsky.social, Ivan Hernandez, Erin Hughes, @niclaskuper.bsky.social, Katherine Lawson, @joelleforestier.bsky.social, and Zachary Witkower!

Learn more: ow.ly/Vff550WY7hH

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people!

⬇️ Please see the full call below

We are very grateful for all contributions!

#SocialPsych #PsychSciSky

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Aug 22

Takeaway: Ghosting is a subjective experience. How long someone is willing to wait for a reply in online messaging meaningfully shapes its interpretation.

Now out in Computers in Human Behavior
💛 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

#SocialPsych #MediaPsych #PsychSciSky

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Aug 22

Personality traits (like rejection sensitivity or #FOMO) didn’t predict response delay tolerance.
However, delay tolerance predicts users’ friendly, confrontational, or avoidant follow-up behavior.

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Aug 22

Across 8,000+ ratings of chat scenarios, we found:
❗️ People feel ghosted faster when messages are urgent.
⏱️ People also feel ghosted faster when chat partners are usually quick to reply.
❌ Closeness of the relationship didn’t predict response delay tolerance.

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Aug 22

When does waiting for a reply turn into #ghosting? 👻💬

@sarahlutz.bsky.social and I introduce response delay tolerance: the amount of time someone is willing to wait for a response in #online messaging before feeling ignored.

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Jun 9

I am beyond excited to start my @snsf.ch PostdocMobility project with Prof Greg Walton @stanford.edu !

In the project we will look at how people think about their social energy 🔋🪫 and how to utilize those beliefs to make social interactions more positive and meaningful!

#SocialPsych #PsychSciSky

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · May 20

📊Research shows people get excluded for two main reasons: breaking group norms or seeming unable to contribute. But researchers report that exclusion decisions are strategic, not just about disliking someone.

Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights: ow.ly/sY2I50VVCa1

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Apr 25

📢 New article! What happens when a message gets deleted before you can read it? 🧐📱

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Apr 25

👉 Bottom line: #socialmedia isn’t just where exclusion increasingly often happens, it’s also where people seek reconnection. Coping with exclusion may often mean staying put; digitally speaking.

Wanna learn more? #openaccess paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

#SocialPsych #MediaPsych #PsychSciSky

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Apr 25

📱We find that, after online exclusion, people were more likely to seek reconnection online.
But offline exclusion didn’t prompt more in-person coping, although in-person coping was preferred overall.

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Apr 25

We captured 853 real-life episodes of social #exclusion, online and offline, using #experiencesampling (N = 323). Right after each event, participants reported how they wanted to cope: by turning to others online or offline.

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Apr 25

🎉 Together with @sarahlutz.bsky.social: New paper out in Computers in Human Behavior Reports!

We asked: After being excluded online or offline do people cope by staying in the same space or by escaping it?

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🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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Elianne Albath @ealbath.bsky.social · Apr 4

🚨 New paper out in Journal of Affective Disorders, with @bogatyreva-nat.bsky.social, @chrbuettner.bsky.social, and Rainer Greifeneder!

How are depression and anxiety linked to ostracism? Turns out, it’s a two-way street.

Open access: 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Social Psych Lab Basel @socpsychbasel.bsky.social · Feb 27

🗞️ Have we misunderstood narcissists? The Independent covers recent research by @chrbuettner.bsky.social, @ealbath.bsky.social, @selmarudert.bsky.social and colleagues.
Check it out here ⬇️
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/n...

Have we misunderstood narcissists?

As a new study sheds light on an under-discussed aspect of narcissism, Olivia Petter asks if we’ve been getting it wrong this whole time – and what the consequences of that might be

www.independent.co.uk

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Feb 20

Our findings highlight how #personality traits like narcissism shape social exclusion experiences in complex ways.

Want to dig deeper?

💚 Open Access: researchgate.net/publication/...

🔗 doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

#SocialPsych #PersonalityPsych #PsychSciSky

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Feb 20

🔹Mechanism 3: Reverse causality - Ostracism and narcissism reinforce each other over time.

In 14 years of #NZAVS data using #RICLPM, we show a negative loop: Narcissists report more ostracism, and ostracism predicts increases in narcissism over time.

A self-perpetuating cycle ⬇️

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Feb 20

🔹Mechanism 2: Target behavior - Narcissists actually get excluded more often.

Two experiments show that people are more likely to ostracize individuals with narcissistic traits, especially those high in narcissistic rivalry.

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Feb 20

🔹Mechanism 1: Negative perceptions - Narcissists are more sensitive to exclusion cues.

Four experiments show that narcissists are more likely to perceive ambiguous situations (but not unambiguous situations like #Cyberball) as ostracism.

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Feb 20

First, the key findings:

Across two national surveys, a 14-day experience sampling study, and six experiments (N = 77,289), we find that grandiose narcissism is strongly linked to experiencing ostracism more frequently. But why?

We identify three mechanisms:

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Feb 20

Why do narcissists report being ostracized more often?

In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology @apajournals.bsky.social w/ @selmarudert.bsky.social @ealbath.bsky.social CSibley RGreifeneder, we examine the link between #narcissism & #ostracism.

🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) Narcissists' Experience of Ostracism

PDF | Ostracism—being excluded and ignored—has severe, negative consequences. What is less clear is why some individuals become frequent targets of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Feb 7

@easpinfo.bsky.social

EASP is moving from X to LinkedIn

Please EASP, be sure to *start using Bluesky*. MANY of us are here now.

#SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky

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Sarah Lutz @sarahlutz.bsky.social · Jan 29

📢 Publication Alert!
Excited to share that our latest research, co-authored with
@chrbuettner.bsky.social, has just been published! 🎉 #MediaPsychology

🔓 #OpenAccess via: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“This Message was Deleted”: The Psychological Consequences of Being Out of the Loop During Messenger Use

Many messenger services, such as WhatsApp or Snapchat, offer the option of deleting messages after they have been sent, leaving a so-called delete notification in the chat. Especially in group chat...

www.tandfonline.com

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Christiane Büttner @chrbuettner.bsky.social · Jan 23

Huge thanks to Luca Pancani & Paolo Riva for initiating a great article collection on the social influence of phubbing!

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