Stress and online social networks with Annica Kessling and Elisa Wegmann

S4E2 - Stress and online social networks with Annica Kessling and Elisa Wegmann

Published: January 23, 2026

Duration: 20:12

In this episode, Dr Tsen Vei Lim speaks to Dr Elisa Wegmann and Annica Kessling, a post-doctoral research fellow and a PhD student at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The interview covers Annica and Elisa’s research article on the effects of acute psychosocial stress on cue-reactivity, attentional bias and implicit associations in women with problematic social network use: An experimental study

What is problematic social network use? [01:36]The controversy of social network use as an addiction [02:50]What we already know about cognition in people with problematic social network use [03:37]What Annica and Elisa mean by implicit cognition in...