Michal Frackowiak, PhD
@mfrackowiak.bsky.social
PhD Psychology. Currently post doc @ University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 🌈
Research on co-present phone use, advanced statistical analysis, multimethodological approach to social interactions and digital behaviours.
Research on co-present phone use, advanced statistical analysis, multimethodological approach to social interactions and digital behaviours.
Pinned
Last night I had the honour to receive the Faculty Prize for my doctoral thesis (@sspunil.bsky.social). Thank you for recognizing the quality of my work and my academic trajectory. Many thanks to the jury of my thesis, my collaborators, and my supervisors for their continuous support.
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📬 Pub alert
Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*?
Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social
Out now in Communication Research
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*?
Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social
Out now in Communication Research
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📬 Pub alert
Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*?
Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social
Out now in Communication Research
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*?
Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social
Out now in Communication Research
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)
No rest for the wicked ✈️ ☕️ 📖
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October 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
No rest for the wicked ✈️ ☕️ 📖
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Attempt no. 430 to use AI to find relevant references: Co-Pilot recommends an article I wrote (no DOI) and provides a summary of my results. No such article exists. If you find this lost publication, let me know. Sounds like a useful reference for my discussion.
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Attempt no. 430 to use AI to find relevant references: Co-Pilot recommends an article I wrote (no DOI) and provides a summary of my results. No such article exists. If you find this lost publication, let me know. Sounds like a useful reference for my discussion.
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
Behaviour doesn’t occur in a vacuum. If social media is meeting a need in young people’s lives, that need won’t just disappear if we ban the platforms. It will go unmet. We need to address the need, not just the tool.
Australia's children's commissioner Anne Hollonds has seen "nothing" to address gaps in community and support left by the teen social media ban.
A year after first raising the alarm, Hollonds says we need to take a "good, hard look at the unmet needs" of vulnerable kids.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
A year after first raising the alarm, Hollonds says we need to take a "good, hard look at the unmet needs" of vulnerable kids.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
October 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Behaviour doesn’t occur in a vacuum. If social media is meeting a need in young people’s lives, that need won’t just disappear if we ban the platforms. It will go unmet. We need to address the need, not just the tool.
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Found this GOLD comment under a post on how children's phone use is contributing to their perception of life as meaningless. This comment will hang on my door, I'll send it to all department members, it will become my personality for the weeks to come, I'll recite it to my neighbours in French.
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Found this GOLD comment under a post on how children's phone use is contributing to their perception of life as meaningless. This comment will hang on my door, I'll send it to all department members, it will become my personality for the weeks to come, I'll recite it to my neighbours in French.
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Everyone’s talking about AI — almost no one’s using it.
A study of 14M web visits shows AI browsing = <1% of online activity.
The few “power users”? More Machiavellian, narcissistic, and psychopathic on average. 😬
doi.org/10.1177/2152...
#AI #psychology #criminology #research #PsychSciSky
A study of 14M web visits shows AI browsing = <1% of online activity.
The few “power users”? More Machiavellian, narcissistic, and psychopathic on average. 😬
doi.org/10.1177/2152...
#AI #psychology #criminology #research #PsychSciSky
October 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Everyone’s talking about AI — almost no one’s using it.
A study of 14M web visits shows AI browsing = <1% of online activity.
The few “power users”? More Machiavellian, narcissistic, and psychopathic on average. 😬
doi.org/10.1177/2152...
#AI #psychology #criminology #research #PsychSciSky
A study of 14M web visits shows AI browsing = <1% of online activity.
The few “power users”? More Machiavellian, narcissistic, and psychopathic on average. 😬
doi.org/10.1177/2152...
#AI #psychology #criminology #research #PsychSciSky
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Does your 📱 make you feel rushed?⏳
kvgaever.bsky.social, daviddeseg.bsky.social, smurphee.bsky.social & Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele show how smartphone email, chat, work app & social media use shape time pressure and task juggling.
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kvgaever.bsky.social, daviddeseg.bsky.social, smurphee.bsky.social & Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele show how smartphone email, chat, work app & social media use shape time pressure and task juggling.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Does your 📱 make you feel rushed?⏳
kvgaever.bsky.social, daviddeseg.bsky.social, smurphee.bsky.social & Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele show how smartphone email, chat, work app & social media use shape time pressure and task juggling.
�� https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2050157925137707010
kvgaever.bsky.social, daviddeseg.bsky.social, smurphee.bsky.social & Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele show how smartphone email, chat, work app & social media use shape time pressure and task juggling.
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📲📰 Can mobile news alerts engage news avoiders?
In their new study, @renbarau.bsky.social, Rory Mulcahy & Aimee Riedel show how positively framed alerts can spark curiosity and boost engagement - even for those who usually avoid the news.
🔓 #OpenAccess
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In their new study, @renbarau.bsky.social, Rory Mulcahy & Aimee Riedel show how positively framed alerts can spark curiosity and boost engagement - even for those who usually avoid the news.
🔓 #OpenAccess
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Pushing Past News Avoidance: Implications of Mobile Alerts on News Engagement Intentions - Renee Barnes, Rory Mulcahy, Aimee Riedel, 2025
The ubiquitous presence of smartphones has led to their prominence as a dominant source of news for a vast majority of people. In this context, the impact of mo...
journals.sagepub.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
📲📰 Can mobile news alerts engage news avoiders?
In their new study, @renbarau.bsky.social, Rory Mulcahy & Aimee Riedel show how positively framed alerts can spark curiosity and boost engagement - even for those who usually avoid the news.
🔓 #OpenAccess
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In their new study, @renbarau.bsky.social, Rory Mulcahy & Aimee Riedel show how positively framed alerts can spark curiosity and boost engagement - even for those who usually avoid the news.
🔓 #OpenAccess
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
Halloween 🎃 costume for this year:
The Anti-Science, Anti-Vaccine, Grifter Pretending to be a Leader
The Anti-Science, Anti-Vaccine, Grifter Pretending to be a Leader
October 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Halloween 🎃 costume for this year:
The Anti-Science, Anti-Vaccine, Grifter Pretending to be a Leader
The Anti-Science, Anti-Vaccine, Grifter Pretending to be a Leader
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
Our new SPSP blogon phubbing is out spsp.org/news/charact...
When Your Partner’s Phone Comes Between You | SPSP
Does your partner’s scrolling make you feel ignored—or even tempt you to retaliate?
spsp.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our new SPSP blogon phubbing is out spsp.org/news/charact...
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
📣New paper:
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
ICT interest and self-concept as determinants of Swiss adolescents’ vocational choices - Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
This study examines whether adolescents’ interest and self-concept regarding information and communication technologies (ICT) affect their subsequent career paths through the selection into different vocational education and training (VET) programs. Drawing on Eccles’ situated expectancy value theory and related theories, we argue that ICT interest and self-concept should influence adolescents’ vocational choices, possibly contributing to occupational gender segregation regarding ICT. Using longitudinal data from the TREE2 study (Transitions into Education and Employment) on 1,995 Swiss adolescents transitioning into firm-based VET, we find strongly gendered patterns. ICT interest predicts selection into occupations with greater intensity of basic and advanced ICT use, but this positive association is driven entirely by girls. In contrast, ICT self-concept significantly predicts ICT use intensity in future occupations only among boys. Selection into ICT specialist occupations is associated exclusively with adolescents’ ICT self-concept rather than their ICT interest, questioning whether girls’ lower average ICT interest represents a relevant barrier for entry into ICT specialist occupations in the context of VET. Our findings emphasize that ICT are an important content domain of adolescents’ vocational choices today and highlight how gendered interests and self-concepts towards ICT perpetuate occupational gender segregation.
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
📣New paper:
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
@science.org just dropped a story covering this preprint! Check it out below, and thanks to @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for the great write-up! www.science.org/content/arti...
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
@science.org just dropped a story covering this preprint! Check it out below, and thanks to @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for the great write-up! www.science.org/content/arti...
I really appreciate qualitative findings in my field. This particular paper still seems just as relevant as yesterday. Yet some quantitative findings seem a bit "passé" to me, though probably due to their psychometric properties. Anyone feel the same way?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27802256/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27802256/
Parent Perspectives on Their Mobile Technology Use: The Excitement and Exhaustion of Parenting While Connected - PubMed
Caregivers of young children describe many internal conflicts regarding their use of mobile technology, which may be windows for intervention. Helping caregivers understand such emotional and cognitiv...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I really appreciate qualitative findings in my field. This particular paper still seems just as relevant as yesterday. Yet some quantitative findings seem a bit "passé" to me, though probably due to their psychometric properties. Anyone feel the same way?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27802256/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27802256/
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“[S]tatistical complexity risks becoming decorative—used to signal analytical sophistication rather than deepen theoretical insight”
Several good points by Winston Peng in his inaugural piece as HCR editor.
academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
Several good points by Winston Peng in his inaugural piece as HCR editor.
academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“[S]tatistical complexity risks becoming decorative—used to signal analytical sophistication rather than deepen theoretical insight”
Several good points by Winston Peng in his inaugural piece as HCR editor.
academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
Several good points by Winston Peng in his inaugural piece as HCR editor.
academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
Last night I had the honour to receive the Faculty Prize for my doctoral thesis (@sspunil.bsky.social). Thank you for recognizing the quality of my work and my academic trajectory. Many thanks to the jury of my thesis, my collaborators, and my supervisors for their continuous support.
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Last night I had the honour to receive the Faculty Prize for my doctoral thesis (@sspunil.bsky.social). Thank you for recognizing the quality of my work and my academic trajectory. Many thanks to the jury of my thesis, my collaborators, and my supervisors for their continuous support.
Oh, so we're still doing the word merging thing
September 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Oh, so we're still doing the word merging thing
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Your kid doesn’t like broccoli? Just put it on the table anyway, the mere exposure effect will take care of the rest
November 2, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Your kid doesn’t like broccoli? Just put it on the table anyway, the mere exposure effect will take care of the rest
Coming back from conferences always fuels me to continue to work on the preliminary results that I've presented. At Swiss Psychological Society conference 2025, I organised a symposium on the use of screens and mobile media across populations of pre-school children, early adolescents, and parents.
September 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Coming back from conferences always fuels me to continue to work on the preliminary results that I've presented. At Swiss Psychological Society conference 2025, I organised a symposium on the use of screens and mobile media across populations of pre-school children, early adolescents, and parents.
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
Participez à la cérémonie d'ouverture des cours 2025-2026, qui inclura une conférence donnée par Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl autour d’un thème au cœur des enjeux contemporains: l’influence des multinationales étatsuniennes sur la démocratie.
▶️Infos et inscription: www.unil.ch/events/17518...
▶️Infos et inscription: www.unil.ch/events/17518...
Cérémonie d'ouverture des cours
La Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques a le plaisir d’inviter sa communauté à la cérémonie d'ouverture des cours 2025-2026, qui inclura une conférence publique donnée par Janick Marina Schaufe...
www.unil.ch
September 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Participez à la cérémonie d'ouverture des cours 2025-2026, qui inclura une conférence donnée par Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl autour d’un thème au cœur des enjeux contemporains: l’influence des multinationales étatsuniennes sur la démocratie.
▶️Infos et inscription: www.unil.ch/events/17518...
▶️Infos et inscription: www.unil.ch/events/17518...
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📢 Les ateliers du semestre d'automne du Graduate Campus de l'Université de Lausanne sont en ligne !
Doctorant·es et chercheur·es postdoc de l'Université de Lausanne, c’est le moment de planifier votre semestre ! 👇🏼
Infos et inscription: courses.unil.ch/graduatecampus
Doctorant·es et chercheur·es postdoc de l'Université de Lausanne, c’est le moment de planifier votre semestre ! 👇🏼
Infos et inscription: courses.unil.ch/graduatecampus
UNIL courses for staff and students
courses.unil.ch
August 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
📢 Les ateliers du semestre d'automne du Graduate Campus de l'Université de Lausanne sont en ligne !
Doctorant·es et chercheur·es postdoc de l'Université de Lausanne, c’est le moment de planifier votre semestre ! 👇🏼
Infos et inscription: courses.unil.ch/graduatecampus
Doctorant·es et chercheur·es postdoc de l'Université de Lausanne, c’est le moment de planifier votre semestre ! 👇🏼
Infos et inscription: courses.unil.ch/graduatecampus
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We have another new paper out on phubbing. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/jopy...
Attachment, Perceived Partner Phubbing, and Retaliation: A Daily Diary Study
Objective
We conducted a diary study to investigate the role of adult attachment on responses to daily perceived partner phubbing in a sample of couple members (N = 196).
Method
We focused on pers.....
doi.org
August 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We have another new paper out on phubbing. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/jopy...
Reposted by Michal Frackowiak, PhD
‘Digital technology – not purely good, or purely bad, and not neutral’
@ellarhodespsych.bsky.social reports from the @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@ellarhodespsych.bsky.social reports from the @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
‘Digital technology – not purely good, or purely bad, and not neutral’ | BPS
Cyberstalking, AI, online dating, and social media were all up for discussion at this year’s British Psychological Society Cyberpsychology Section Conference, held at Birmingham City University’s STEA...
www.bps.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
‘Digital technology – not purely good, or purely bad, and not neutral’
@ellarhodespsych.bsky.social reports from the @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@ellarhodespsych.bsky.social reports from the @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
From now on, I'll be introducing myself as "firstname:contact_attribute, PhD" 🤓
July 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
From now on, I'll be introducing myself as "firstname:contact_attribute, PhD" 🤓