We presented adolescents with hypothetical cyber incident vignettes. These scenarios were systematically manipulated to adhere to the experimental factors of interest. Vignettes in general are a valuable research tool because they allow collecting data on how people would act in situations that cannot be investigated with other methodologies because of their sensitive nature or their infrequent occurrence. However, the validity of this approach is a crucial issue: It has been shown that the emotional experience of real situations manipulated in the lab is more intense than reading hypothetical vignettes. These findings point to the general validity of this approach with regard to the type of effects but also to a potentially reduced size of effects. For cyerbullying, vignettes are a promising methodology to experimentally manipulate cyberbullying incidents, avoiding many of the methodological and ethical challenges of re-creating cyberbullying in the laboratory.