Exploring the influence of anxiety, pleasure and subjective knowledge on public acceptance of fully autonomous vehicles
Although Fully Autonomous Vehicles (FAVs) will bring huge benefits to society, it seems that public acceptance tends to be mixed. This study, based on affective reactions and knowledge, develops a research framework to explain the ...
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- A framework explaining Fully Autonomous Vehicles acceptance is proposed.
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How the use of mobile fitness technology influences older adults’ physical and psychological well-being
Older adults are becoming increasingly interested in and developing the ability to use mobile fitness (mFit) technology to stay healthy, independent, and socially connected. However, relatively little attention has been paid to older ...
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- Older adults are becoming increasingly interested in mobile fitness (mFit) technology.
Social comparison of fitness social media postings by fitness app users
Individuals tend to compare themselves with those whose attributes and abilities are better (i.e., upward social comparison) or worse (i.e., downward social comparison) than their own to evaluate self. Based on social comparison theory,...
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- Upward fitness comparison appeared to enhance self-efficacy in PA.
- Downward ...
Readers' perceptions of self-harm messages on social media
Digital self-harm is becoming increasingly evident, and new technology fosters and encourages it. More worryingly, it has been associated with suicide; people engaging in digital self-harm often engage in offline self-harm. This study ...
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- Considered the digital self-harm phenomenon on the social media.
- Studied how ...
Blockchain adoption: A study of cognitive factors underpinning decision making
The literature so far has been focused on technological sophistication rather than the aspects of blockchain adoption that can hinder or facilitate the use of the technology. To address this gap this paper aims to study the cognitive ...
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- The study provides an individual's perspective on blockchain-enabled technologies.
The psychological reassurance effect of mobile tracing apps in Covid-19 Era
As part of their public health policies, most countries have launched mobile tracing applications (apps) to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and reassure their citizens. To the best of our knowledge, no study has explored the ...
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- Contact tracing apps are playing a vital role during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- No ...
Misleading political advertising fuels incivility online: A social network analysis of 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign video comments on YouTube
In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, increasing misinformation-based political advertisements have circulated on video-sharing platforms, such as YouTube and challenged healthy political communication. This study investigates the ...
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- Misleading political advertising on YouTube ferments political incivility.
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“Not as attractive and communicatively competent as I expected”: The effects of expectancy violations on relational outcomes during modality switching in online dating
The first face-to-face (FtF) meeting of online daters serves as a turning point for relationship development. Based on expectancy violations theory and the hyperpersonal model, this study investigated the associations between ...
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- Online daters experienced expectation violations in the first FtF meeting.
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Proximal language predicts crowdfunding success: Behavioral and experimental evidence
Online crowdfunding has become an important venue for innovating entrepreneurs, enabling them to bypass traditional funding sources and directly pitch to the masses. And yet, most crowdfunding campaigns fail to reach their funding ...
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- The paper examines the effects of proximal language on crowdfunding outcomes.
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Sharing emotion while spectating video game play: Exploring Twitch users' emotional change after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic associates with Twitch users' emotion, using natural language processing (NLP) as a method. Two comparable sets of text data were collected from Twitch internet relay chats (IRCs): one ...
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- During the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitch users feel more anger and anxiety than before.
Gamer Girl vs. Girl Gamer: Stereotypical Gamer Traits Increase Men's Play Intention
The present study utilized two theories (the common ingroup identity model; expectation states theory) to examine male players' intention to play video games with a female player. Consistent with the common ingroup identity model, male ...
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- The Common Ingroup Identity Model and Expected States Theory were tested.
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How brand-stakeholder dialogue drives brand-hosted community engagement on social media: A mixed-methods approach
The literature has revealed various antecedents of consumers' participation in an online brand community. But it is still unknown how digital brand-stakeholder dialogue (BSD), a type of communicative interaction on social media, ...
The relationship between videogame micro-transactions and problem gaming and gambling: A systematic review
Micro-transactions are an increasingly popular form of monetisation for videogame companies. The similarities between specific micro-transaction types and forms of gambling have been identified in literature. ...
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- Micro-transactions are a popular form of monetisation for gaming companies.
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Cybergossip and Problematic Internet Use in cyberaggression and cybervictimisation among adolescents
Research on cyberbullying has focused on personal and contextual factors. However, little is known about its relationship with habitual behaviours associated with easy access to the Internet, such as cybergossip and problematic ...
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- Cyberbullying is associated with problematic Internet use (PIU) and cybergossip.
“They bought it, therefore I will buy it”: The effects of peer users' conversion as sales performance and entrepreneurial sellers' number of followers as relationship performance in mobile social commerce
Drawing from social learning theory and the mobile advertising literature on key performance indicators (KPIs), two experiments examined the influence of peer users' conversion in mobile social commerce. Experiment 1 (N = 211, between-...
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- Two experiments test social learning theory and KPI literature in social commerce.
An experimental investigation of adolescent and young adult responses to stigmatizing and supportive social media posts in response to a depressed peer
Mental disorders and their stigmatization is common among young people. The present independent groups experiment explored mental disorder stigma on social media. Study 1 examined adolescents aged 13–17 (140 participants; 90 female). ...
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- Participants had positive intentions to support a peer with mental ill health.
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When less intergenerational closeness helps: The influence of intergenerational physical proximity and technology attributes on technophobia among older adults
Intergenerational contact for technology learning frequently transpires in various daily settings of older adults’ lives. However, older adults often hold negative age-based self-stereotype that they are less capable in technology use. ...
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- The way of intergenerational contact affects technophobia among older adults.
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Impact of artificial intelligence-enabled job characteristics and perceived substitution crisis on innovative work behavior of employees from high-tech firms
The importance of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled systems has been at the forefront of innovation research for the past ten years. The literature has reported the use of AI-enabled systems (AIS) in firms, but there has been a ...
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- Job-design theory and prospect theory adopted to understand AI-enabled work design.
Preliminary evidence that brief exposure to vaccination-related internet memes may influence intentions to vaccinate against COVID-19
Despite global efforts to rapidly distribute COVID-19 vaccines, early estimates suggested that 29–35% of the population were hesitant/unwilling to receive them. Countering such vaccine hesitancy is thus an important priority. Across ...
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- Many report(ed) unwillingness or hesitancy to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Virtual reality induces symptoms of depersonalization and derealization: A longitudinal randomised control trial
Trusting reports on internet forums, a substantial number of people have developed unpleasant symptoms of depersonalization (DP) and derealization (DR) after virtual reality (VR) consumption. Likewise, one case series study indicates ...
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- Transient symptoms of depersonalization and derealization after both, VR gaming and PC gaming.
When we tolerate online incivility: Dual-Process Effects of Argument Strength and Heuristic Cues in Uncivil User Comments
Online comment streams today are often vigorous, even violent places of public engagement. This study uses the Sociotechnical Influence Model (SIM; Van Der Heide & Schumaker, 2013), a dual-process approach to the study of computer-...
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- Argument strength of uncivil comments boosts cognitive elaboration of news content.
Need satisfaction, passion and wellbeing effects of videogame play prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, reports have shown a significant rise in videogame engagement due to stay-at-home and quarantine restrictions, which has led to further concerns regarding the wellbeing impacts of videogames. Due to the ...
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- Concerns about videogame play have increased during the pandemic.
- We assess ...
Human, I wrote a song for you: An experiment testing the influence of machines’ attributes on the AI-composed music evaluation
This study examines the evaluation of musical performances of artificial intelligence (AI) and the acceptance of AI music generators as musicians. Relying on theoretical frameworks of anthropomorphism and creative machine heuristics, a ...
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- This study is about how people perceive AI music generators and evaluate their songs based on different traits they have.
Talking back to mental health stigma: An exploration of YouTube comments on anti-stigma videos
Mental illness continues to be stigmatized, creating challenges for individuals with mental illness including help-seeking hesitancy, negative impacts on personal relationships, and barriers to basic rights such as housing, finances, ...
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- Individuals share their lived experiences of stigmatization towards mental illness through social media.
Higher education managers’ perspectives on quality management and technology acceptance: A tale of elders, mediators, and working bees in times of Covid-19
- Luis González Bravo,
- Nicolae Nistor,
- Bernardo Castro Ramírez,
- Ilse Gutiérrez Soto,
- Marcela Varas Contreras,
- Mónica Núñez Vives,
- Pía Maldonado Robles
The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasized the role of educational management information systems (EMIS) for quality management (QM) in higher education, and set new directions for post-pandemic studies. Successful implementation of QM ...
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- Covid-19 emphasized the role of educational management information systems.
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Assessment of attitudes toward Internet pornography in emerging adults using the Internet Pornography Questionnaire
Research suggests that Internet pornography (IP) plays an important role in the lives of emerging adults, particularly when it comes to their attitudes and beliefs about sex. However, surprisingly little work has explicitly examined ...
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- This study examined emerging adults' attitudes toward Internet pornography (IP).
Bystander responses to cyberbullying: The role of perceived severity, publicity, anonymity, type of cyberbullying, and victim response
Cyberbullying often occurs in group-based situations; therefore, how young people respond when they witness cyberbullying is important in the process of combating the issue. This study examined how young people perceive the severity of ...
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- Bystanders play a key role in combating cyberbullying.
- Examined role of ...
Problematic social networking sites use and attachment: A systematic review
A systematic review of the literature was conducted to summarize research that examined the associations between problematic social networking sites use (PSNSU) and attachment-related phenomena among adolescents and adults. Records ...
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- Problematic social networking sites use (PSNSU) was examined from an attachment framework.