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Publications

The Digital Media and Psychology Lab investigates the intersection between psychology and technology. Our projects aim to deepen understand of how technologies affect our conceptions of ourselves and our relationships with others, as well as the underlying psychological and emotional needs they meet. ​​Selected publications are included below. If you are interested in obtaining the complete article, please click here.

Selected Publications

Trub, L. Doyle, K.,* Parker, V.* & Starks, T. (in press) Drunk Texting: When the phone becomes a vehicle for emotional dysregulation and problematic alcohol use Substance Use and Misuse
 

Trub, L., Berler, M.*, & Magaldi, D. (in press) Collisions and Collusions with New Norms: Renegotiating Therapeutic Boundaries in the Digital Age Journal of Psychotherapy Integration
 

Trub, L. (2021) Playing and Digital Reality: Treating Kids and Adolescents in a Pandemic Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Bermingham, L.*, Meehan, K., Wong, P. & Trub, L. (2021) Attachment Anxiety and Solitude in the Age of Smartphones Psychoanalytic Psychology
 

Trub, L. & Magaldi, D. (2021) Secret Powers: Acts of Googling in the Therapeutic Relationship Journal of Clinical Psychology

 

Magaldi, D. & Trub, L. (2020) Staying Close while Social Distancing: Lessons for Teletherapy from a Grounded Theory Study The Integrative Therapist

Trub, L. & Barbot, B. (2020) Texting – Great Escape or Path to Self-Expression?: Development and Validation of the Messaging Motivations Questionnaire Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development  

 

Trub, L. & Magaldi, D. (2019) Digital Dialectics: navigating technology’s paradoxes in online treatment In A. Rolnick & H. Weinberg (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Online Therapy: Internet-delivered Interventions for Individuals, Groups, Families and Organizations Routledge

 

Essig, T., Magaldi, D. & Trub, L. (2018) Technology, Intimacy and the Simulation of Intimacy In G. Kanwal & S. Akhtar (Eds.), Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives Routledge
 

O’Hadi, J.*, Brown, B.*, Trub, L., & Rosenthal, L. (2018) I Just Text to Say I Love You: Partner Similarity in Texting and Relationship Satisfaction Computers in Human Behavior
 

Trub, L. & Starks, T. (2017) Textual Healing: Exploring the impact of a technology-focused mindfulness intervention on mindfulness and technology-related behaviors Mindfulness DOI: 10.1007/s12671-017-0697-


Trub, L. & Starks, T. (2017) Insecure Attachments: Attachment, Emotional Regulation, Sexting and Condomless Sex in Couples Computers in Human Behavior DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.052
 

Trub, L. & Starks, T. (2016) Texting Under the Influence: Alcohol Effects on Texting as a Mediator of the Relationship between Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Heavy Drinking Cyberpsychology, Social Networking, and Behaviordoi:10.1089/cyber.2016.0468
 

Trub, L. (2016) A Portrait of the Self in the Digital Age: Examining the Relationship between Attachment and Blogging Psychoanalytic Psychology DOI: 10.1037/pap000012


Trub, L. & Barbot, B. (2016) The Paradox of Phone Attachment: Development and Psychometric Properties of the Attachment to Phone Scale Computers in Human Behavior 64, 663-672.
 

Lup, K.*, Trub, L., & Rosenthal, R. (2015) Instagram #Instasad?: Exploring the Association of Instagram Use with Depressive Symptoms, Mediation by Negative Social Comparison, and Moderation by Strangers Followed Cyberpsychology, Social Networking, and Behavior 18(5), 247-252.
 

Trub, L., Revenson, T., & Salbod, S. (2014) Getting Close from Far Away: Mediators of the Relation between Adult Attachment and Blogging Behavior. Computers in Human Behavior, 245-252, DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.08.00

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