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Joel Billieux

Professor of Psychology

University of Lausanne

Switzerland

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Joel Billieux is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. His research areas include the psychological impacts of mobile phone use in schools, behavioral addictions, and the role of attachment and uncertainty in adolescent gaming. Recent articles explore themes such as mental health in Long COVID patients, the motivations behind pornography use, and issues surrounding social media addiction assessments.

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Pierre Maurage

Prof. at Université catholique de Louvain

Université catholique de Louvain

BELGIUM

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Symptom-level associations between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and compulsive sexual behaviour: undirected and Bayesian network analysis across multiple sociodemographic characteristics

A global investigation of the Moral Incongruence Model of Pornography Use across genders, religions, and cultures

Subtyping binge-watchers based on viewing patterns and motives: A latent class analysis

Craving and the body: Sensations of cue‐elicited craving in binge drinking university students

Addictive use of social media scales are not necessarily measuring problematic behavior: Evidence from the international 2017 health behaviour in school-aged children study.

Toward non-confirmatory research approaches and epistemic rigor: A critical commentary on the concept of “nose spray addiction” proposed in Lakatos et al. (2025)

Profiles of Subjective Sexual Arousal in Response to Pornography Exposure and Their Association with Problematic Pornography Use: A Cluster Analytic Approach

Toward a theoretically grounded preventive framework for Problematic Pornography Use: The PPU-PrevFrame

From AI Psychosis to Brain Rot: How pseudo-diagnoses endanger genuine psychological and medical discovery in challenging times

The Development of the Paraphilic Disorders Short Screen (PDSS) and Its Examination in Diverse Populations

Investigating Impulsivity as a Moderator of the Association Between Sexual Abuse and Alcohol Misuse Across Individuals from Different Countries, Gender Identities, and Sexual Orientations

Psychometric properties and normative data for the Spanish 15-item Barratt Impulsiveness Scale in adolescents (BIS-15-A)

Epidemiologia de las adicciones conductuales

Epidemiology of non-substance addictive behaviors

Mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of behavioral addictions

Intervenciones basadas en Mindfulness para el tratamiento de las adicciones conductuales

Pathologization of everyday life as behavioral addiction

La patologización de la vida cotidiana como adicción conductual

Estimated prevalence of gaming disorder based on ICD-11 and DSM-5 frameworks in a large and representative sample of young Swiss men

Towards a psychological approach to on-demand TV series streaming and binge-watching (editorial)

Basic psychological needs satisfaction: an international examination of invariance across 22 languages and 32 countries

Psychological consequences of school mobile phone bans: Emulated trial of a natural experiment in South Australia

The role of attachment anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty in gaming during adolescence: A two-wave longitudinal study

Red Box, Green Box: Psychometric evaluation of a self‐report behavioral frequency measurement approach for behavioral addictions research

Salience and tolerance are not indicators of problematic social media use: Evidence from the Social Media Disorder Scale and the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale

Renewing the assessment of behavioral addictions is necessary to avoid pathologizing nonproblematic behaviors: Commentary on Grubbs and Boness (2025).

Cognitive Performance and Mental Health in Long COVID Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study

People are not becoming “AIholic”: Questioning the “ChatGPT addiction” construct

Physical sensations of craving in binge drinking and severe alcohol use disorder: A phenomenological approach

Brain mechanisms discriminating enactive mental simulations of running and plogging

Problematic online behaviors constitute related yet distinct conditions: A cross-sectional study

Effects of 72-hour abstinence from instant messaging on craving, withdrawal, and affect

Psychometric Properties and Normative Data of the Spanish UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale in Adolescents

Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for palliative care within a home treatment setting: A case report

Evaluating the factor structure and measurement invariance of the 20-item short version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale across multiple countries, languages, and gender identities

Psychothérapie assistée par psychédéliques (PAP) : le modèle genevois

Why Do People Watch Pornography? Cross-Cultural Validation of the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS) and Its Short Form (PUMS-8)

No Role for Outcomes in Definitions of Impulsive Actions

Development of the Saini-Hodgins Addiction Risk Potential of Games (SHARP-G) Scale: An International Delphi study

Problematic online behaviors and psychopathology in Australia

The eleven-item alcohol, smoking and substance involvement screening test (ASSIST-11): Cross-cultural psychometric evaluation across 42 countries

Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 42 countries: Insights from the International Sex Survey and introduction of standardized assessment tools

Gaming passion contributes to the definition and identification of problematic gaming

How gaming motives affect the reciprocal relationships between video game use and quality of life: A prospective study using objective playtime indicators

Perspectives on adaptive and maladaptive involvement into esports

The psychological syndrome associated with Long-COVID: A study protocol

Prevalence of problematic Internet use and problematic gaming in Spanish adolescents

Self-reported health among immigrants in Luxembourg: insights from a nationally representative sample

Thinking beyond cut-off scores in the assessment of potentially addictive behaviors: A brief illustration in the context of binge-watching

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Pierre Maurage

Olivier Desmedt

Zsolt Demetrovics

Eva Penelo

Rafael Ballester‐Arnal

Loïs Fournier

Gabor Orosz

Alexandre Infanti

Shane Kraus

Andrea Czakó

Yi-Ping Hsieh

Mateo Leganes Fonteneau

Marc N. Potenza

Ian Zajac

Daniel King

Gaëlle Challet-Bouju

Marco D. T. Scanavino

Sophie Bergeron

Chris Baeken

Blake Quinney

Ornella Corazza

Jesús Castro-Calvo

Hans-Juergen Rumpf

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