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Jens Binder is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University's School of Social Sciences. He serves as course leader for the MSc Cyberpsychology and Deputy Director of Doctoral Programmes for Social Sciences. His teaching focuses on Social Psychology and Cyberpsychology with an emphasis on quantitative methods. He regularly supervises PhD, Masters, and undergraduate research projects.
Jens holds a doctoral degree from the University of Tuebingen and has held post-doctoral positions at the Universities of Sussex and Manchester. His research investigates online social behaviors, cyberpsychology, and human-media interaction, with core focuses on online social competence, safety, and wellbeing. Recent projects explore radicalization pathways, video call engagement, and smartphone distraction.
His research employs experimental and survey-based methodologies, with particular interest in social network analysis and multi-level modeling. Collaborations include the Ministry of Justice (via CT-ARC) and DSTL. He has advised national research councils and edited the Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology book series (11 titles).
Jens currently supervises three PhD projects examining AI-generated speech recall, music's impact on pseudo-profound statements, and short-video attention processes. Completed PhD projects include studies of Facebook networks and radicalization among extremists.
He has delivered international summer schools on cyberpsychology and serves on Ofcom's 'Making Sense of Media' group. His work bridges evolutionary psychology with digital technologies, addressing societal challenges through empirical and theoretical innovation.
