Does the privacy paradox exist? Comment on Yu et al.’s (2020) meta-analysis
I was excited when last year I saw that International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) published a meta analysis on the privacy paradox. Does the privac...
Category: Research
A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox
One of my major research interest is to understand better the privacy paradox. According to the privacy paradox, privacy concerns don’t affect our online ...
Das Privacy Paradox aus psychologischer Perspektive
Ende 2019 erschien der Beitrag “Das Privacy Paradox aus psychologischer Perspektive” im Handbuch Datenrecht und Digitalisierung. In dem Beitrag anal...
What is privacy?
Countless definitions of privacy exist. Arguably, the most prominent one was offered by Alan Westin. It goes as follows:
Protected: What is a meaningful effect size?
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How many hours do you need to spend on Facebook to reduce your happiness?
I’ve recently written a thread on Twitter that, at least by my standards, got pretty viral. In the thread I discuss the topic of effect sizes. Specificall...
Since the advent of smartphones, have we become more or less happy?
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the effects of smartphones on mental health. For example, one was able to read the following: Rates of teen depress...
5 years into academia – 45 things I’ve learned so far …
It’s been 5 years now since I started working in academia. Not that long after all – but maybe just long enough to share some of the things that I’v...