Publications

Moser, S., Bührer, S., Kostikova, D., & Matthes, J. (2027). From hostile feedback to withdrawal: Emotional exhaustion as a barrier to social media misinformation correction. Computers in Human Behavior, 187, 109179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.109179

Hirsch, M., Bührer, S., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2027). Approval mechanisms fueling digital hate: Online incivility and intolerance perpetration in four countries. Computers in Human Behavior, 186, 109143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.109143

Matthes, J., Koban, K., Bührer, S., Kirchmair, T., Weiss, P., Khaleghipour, M., Saumer, M., & Meerson, R. (2026). The state of evidence in digital hate research: An umbrella review. Communication Research, 53(6), 867-896. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502251365724

Nguyen, G., Bührer, S., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2026). Where digital hate finds its home: Perpetrators' preferred affordances and their experiences with content moderation and user intervention. Information, Communication, & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2026.2663190

Koban, K., Bührer, S., & Matthes, J. (2026). All roads lead to hate? Examining five prediction paths for online incivility and intolerance perpetration. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990261429081

Bührer, S., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2026). Immigration-related socio-cognitive dynamics driving digital hate: A four-country study on online incivility and intolerance perpetration. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 31(1), zmaf026. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmaf026

Bührer, S., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2025). Misreading uncivil and intolerant anti-immigration content in digital spheres: The role of recent online perpetration. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251401865

Matthes, J., Nguyen, G., Koban, K., Meerson, R., Khaleghipour, M., Garner, D., Bührer, S., & Kirchmair, T. (2025). Discursive consequences of social media hostility: Chilling effects, avoidance, and intervention behaviors of emerging adults in the U.S. and Indonesia. Computers in Human Behavior, 171, 108704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108704

Bührer, S., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2024). The WWW of digital hate perpetration: What, who, and why? A scoping review. Computers in Human Behavior, 159, 108321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108321

Dricu, M., Bührer, S., Moser, D. A., & Aue, T. (2023). Asymmetrical update of beliefs about future outcomes is driven by outcome valence and social group membership. International Review of Social Psychology, 36(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.647

Aue, T., Kexel, A.-K., Kluwe-Schiavon, B., Bührer, S., Baumgartner, M. R., Soravia, L. M., & Quednow, B. (2022). In- and out-group effects on social perception and empathy in cocaine use disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.879016

Aue, T., Bührer, S., Mayer, B., & Dricu, M. (2021). Empathic responses to social targets: The influence of warmth and competence perceptions, situational valence, and social identification. PLoS ONE, 16, e02485562.

Aue, T., Dricu, M., Moser, D. A., Mayer, B., & Bührer, S. (2021). Comparing personal and social optimism biases: Magnitude, Overlap, Modifiability, and links with social identification and expertise. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 233. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00913-8

Lawitschka, A., Bührer, S., Bauer, D., Konrad, P., Silbernagl, M., Zubarivskaya, N., … Peters, C. (2020). A web-based mobile app (INTERACCT App) for adolescents undergoing cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation aftercare to improve the quality of medical information for clinicians: Observational study. JMIR Mhealth Unhealth, 8, e18781.

Peters, K., Bührer, S., Silbernagl, M., Kayali, F., Hlavacs, H., & Lawitschka, A. (2019). Evaluation of informative content of health data submitted through a mobile serious game. In E. van der Spek, S. Göbel, E. L. Do, E: Clua, & J. Baalsrud Hauge (Eds.), Entertainment computing and serious games. ICEC-JCSG 2019 (pp. 366-376). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34644-7_30

Dricu, M., Bührer, S., Hesse, F., Eder, C., Posada, A., & Aue, T. (2018). Warmth and competence predict overoptimistic beliefs for out-group but not in-group members. PLoS One, 13(11), e0207670. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207670