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reveal effects for the VIPP-Twins on behavioral emotion regulation or neural activity. One possible explanation is that participants were tested in a relatively short period after the parenting interventions was completed (approximately one month), and effects on the child may only be visible after a longer time period (Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2008). Alternatively, during the transition from middle childhood to early adolescence, peers become more important (Berndt, 2004). An interesting future direction for interventions is therefore to target the peer-environment. One particularly ecological valid way to study the peer environment is to focus on social media use (Giglietto et al., 2012). Despite the fact that social media are everywhere around us and used by almost everyone on a daily basis, little scientific research has been conducted on the effects of social media on the developing brain (Crone and Konijn, 2018). Social judgment paradigms as the SNAT mimic social rejection and acceptation by peers in a way that is comparable to social media environments where individuals connect based on first impression. Future research could take into account variations of the social environment by additionally monitoring real life social media use (for example using a smartphone app, see Montag et al. (2017)).
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