Lecuona, Oscar
Lin, Chung-Ying
Montag, Christian
Pontes, Halley M.
Pakpour, Amir H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8798-5345
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jönköping University
Article History
Accepted: 29 April 2024
First Online: 10 May 2024
Declarations
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: The authors report no conflict of interest. However, for reasons of transparency Dr. Montag mentions that he has received (to Ulm University and earlier University of Bonn) grants from agencies such as the German Research Foundation (DFG). Dr. Montag has performed grant reviews for several agencies; has edited journal sections and articles; has given academic lectures in clinical or scientific venues or companies; and has generated books or book chapters for publishers of mental health texts. For some of these activities he received royalties, but never from gaming or social media companies. Dr. Montag mentions that he is part of a discussion circle (Digitalität und Verantwortung: ) debating ethical questions linked to social media, digitalization and society/democracy at Facebook. In this context, he receives no salary for his activities. Finally, he mentions that he currently functions as independent scientist on the scientific advisory board of the Nymphenburg group. This activity is financially compensated. Moreover, he is on the scientific advisory board of Applied Cognition (Redwood, CA, USA), an activity which is also compensated.
: The study has received ethical approval by the research team’s University Ethics Committee (College Research Ethics Committee of the Nottingham Trent University [2018/95]). All participants were assured the data used for the analysis was anonymous and confidential.
: All the participants provided informed consents.
: Not applicable.