Jana Dreston
janadreston.bsky.social
Jana Dreston
@janadreston.bsky.social
PhD candidate at U Duisburg-Essen
Interested in PolCom on Social Media
Former Fulbright Scholar at U Michigan
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💬 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙄𝙣-𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 #5: 𝘾𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚 💬

✅ Choose the same scope as the article
🗣️ Make sure the title can be understood before reading the article
🌍 Readers across the globe should understand the text
🎯 Choose clarity over catchiness
🔍 Support searchability
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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📢 New in HCR by @janadreston.bsky.social and @andreasnanz.bsky.social:

Both intentional search and accidental exposure to election info on social media boost political knowledge—but don’t improve vote-choice alignment. Intentional seekers just feel more confident.

Read: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
Incidental and intentional exposure in a mock election setting on social media: effects on subjective and objective political knowledge and aligned voting
Abstract. As political campaigns increasingly use social media to reach voters, scholars debate whether users actually acquire election-related knowledge o
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October 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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@janadreston.bsky.social is a PhD student at @unidue.bsky.social. Her research focuses on political and scientific communication on social media. She analyses the impact of information processing on knowledge and participation.
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The newly elected young scholar representatives of the @dgps.bsky.social met up to start their work. 💪
For the #mediapsych division @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @janadreston.bsky.social will be representing young scholars wishes and needs and bring their perspective into the association. 📢
In den letzten Wochen haben viele Fachgruppen der @dgps.bsky.social ihre Jungmitglieder-Vertreter:innen in den Fachgruppenleitungen gewählt. 🗳✨
Wir haben diesen Anlass genutzt, um uns zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und spannende neue Angebote für unsere Jungmitglieder zu planen. 🚀🤝
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Are you interested in applied science communication? In-Mind is looking for interested researchers and master students to join their social media team

Deadline: October 1st
🌟 Join the In-Mind Social Media Team! 🌟

Do you want to help make psychology research accessible to a wider audience while sharpening your skills in science communication? In-Mind is looking for 3–4 new volunteers to join our Social Media Team!
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Congratulations to the new team:
- Özen Odag (Chair)
- @dpossler.bsky.social (Vice Chair)
- @romohseni.bsky.social (Treasurer)
- @klingelhoefer.bsky.social (ECR representative)
- @janadreston.bsky.social (ECR vice-representative)

And welcome @hannahdecker.bsky.social, our new social media secretary
September 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Join our team at In-Mind: We are looking for 2 new editors and 3-4 people for our social media team!
🌟Calling for new team members at In-Mind 🌟

In-Mind is a volunteer-driven project dedicated to making psychology research accessible and engaging while maintaining scientific rigour.
September 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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New study by @janadreston.bsky.social @anneo.bsky.social & @germanneubaum.bsky.social reveals how users understand algorithms. Key findings: 71% have a basic understanding of algorithms but only 33% can explain how they work; users see themselves as passive actors when interacting with algorithms 🧪
August 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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🧠 Meet the minds behind In-Mind: The Editorial Team 🧠

✨ Jana Dreston
💼 Editor-in-Chief
🎓 PhD student @unidue.bsky.social‬.
🔍 Research interests: science communication, political education on social media, memory processes

#MeetTheTeam #Psychology #ScienceCommunication
@janadreston.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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🎓 Top Student-Led Paper

🎓 @janadreston.bsky.social & @andreasnanz.bsky.social

📄 Incidental Exposure in a Mock Election Setting on Social Media: Effects on Subjective and Objective Political Knowledge and Aligned Voting
June 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...
Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field
www.leuphana.de
June 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🚨 Join In-Mind 🚨

Applications to join our volunteer team at In-Mind are still open until Thursday, May 1 – we would love to hear from you!

🔗 Find out more here: www.in-mind.org/blog/post/jo...

📝 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#ScienceCommunication #Psychology #OpenScience #SciComm
Join the In-Mind Team: Help us make psychology accessible to everyone! | the InMind blog | In-Mind
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April 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
10 days left to submit for our special issue on "the dark side of social media" 📱
At In-Mind, we publish short literature reviews for interested laypeople - science communication has never been that easy

Deadline for submitting abstracts (200 words): May 2nd
🚨 Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue on the Negative Psychological Consequences of Social Media 🚨

We are currently seeking abstracts for the special issue “The Dark Side of Social Media — Unpacking its Psychological Impact”.

🗓️ Abstracts submission deadline: May 2, 2025
April 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Join our team at In-Mind!
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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🚨 Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue on the Negative Psychological Consequences of Social Media 🚨

We are currently seeking abstracts for the special issue “The Dark Side of Social Media — Unpacking its Psychological Impact”.

🗓️ Abstracts submission deadline: May 2, 2025
April 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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🚨 Join the In-Mind Team: Help us make psychology accessible to everyone! 🚨

We’re currently recruiting:
📝 Editors in Clinical, Developmental, and I/O Psychology
📱 Social Media Team Members
🧩 Digital Support Team Members

#ScienceCommunication #Psychology #OpenScience #SciComm
March 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I am very happy to share that the second paper of my dissertation has been published in Communication Research. German Neubaum and I examined the effect of intentionality of news seeking on social media on objective and subjective political knowledge.
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February 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🚨 2 days left to submit to our special issue on the psychological dimension of Artificial Intelligence 🚨
🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 🚨
🗓️ Abstracts submission deadline: 𝟯𝟭 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
📜 Publication of the special issue: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
👉 See the full call for abstracts attached or here: lnkd.in/ethEfzJR
@wischnewski.bsky.social
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January 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
You do reasearch on the intersection of psychology and AI? Consider submitting to In-Mind‘s special issue on this topic
Deadline: January 31st
🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 🚨
🗓️ Abstracts submission deadline: 𝟯𝟭 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
📜 Publication of the special issue: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
👉 See the full call for abstracts attached or here: lnkd.in/ethEfzJR
@wischnewski.bsky.social
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January 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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🚨We are looking for experts in the field of "Psychology of AI" to serve as editors for a special issue at In-Mind
Deadline: November 15th
www.in-mind.org/blog/post/ca...
Call for editors for a Special Issue on the “Psychology of Artificial Intelligence” | Announcements and News | the InMind blog | In-Mind
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November 13, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Day 2 of the #DGPS2024 kicks off (for me) with a symposium on social media effects on politics and the environment - in the first talk @janadreston.bsky.social presents a cool pre-registered experiment testing the effects of intentional versus incidential social media news exposure
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September 17, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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Join us in this new chapter by submitting your (1500-2000 words) articles! www.in-mind.org/content/for-...
February 1, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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🚀 Exciting news for psychology researchers! In-Mind International, the English branch of the renowned science magazine, has relaunched. We're on a mission to bridge the gap between science and the public, and we need YOUR expertise.
February 1, 2024 at 6:13 PM
I am very happy to announce that in-mind international has relaunched and is open for submissions again!
In-mind is an online popular science magazine dedicated to informing people about a variety of psychological topics.
www.in-mind.org/blog/post/in...
November 21, 2023 at 4:25 PM
HALFTIME! Two months into my #fulbright research fellowship at the University of Michigan, I've started two research projects and own two Michigan caps - let's see if these trends are linear
October 18, 2023 at 2:59 PM