Social Cues and Impression Formation in CMC

By Martin Tanis, Tom Postmes. 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology

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The Influence of Online Comments on Perceptions of Antimarijuana Public Service Announcements on YouTube (2010, methodology): “Some variation in social identification scores was expected, and it reflects the approach in recent SIDE research (Tanis & Postmes, 2003).”
Social influence in small groups: An interactive model of social identity formation (2005, background): “It could be argued that anonymity enhances uncertainty, and thereby enhances the need for social validation (cf. Tanis, 2003; Tanis & Postmes, 2003), but importantly this would constitute a novel explanation of group polarisation (and would actually be quite closely related to the…”
Theories of Computer-Mediated Communication and Interpersonal Relations (2011, background): “Tanis and Postmes (2003) established that the presentation of partners' photos or the exchange of preinteraction biographies of CMC users works equivalently well in instilling interpersonal expectations in CMC settings.”
Distinguishing technologies for social interaction: The perceived social affordances of communication channels scale (2017, background): “…social presence theory, Short, Williams, & Christie, 1976; media richness theory, Daft, Lengel, & Trevino, 1987) and a considerable number of studies have identified relationships between channel affordances and outcomes (e.g., Bazarova, 2012; Lee & Oh, 2012; Tanis & Postmes, 2003; Walther, 1994).”
Avatar characteristics induce users’ behavioral conformity with small-to-medium effect sizes: a meta-analysis of the proteus effect (2019, background): “Later research examined the nature of these cues in the perception of communication partners, and how a lack of these cues caused ambiguity and uncertainty in communication (Kiesler, 1986; Sproull & Kiesler, 1991; Tanis & Postmes, 2003).”
Social-Psychological Influences on Opinion Expression in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Communication (2008, background): “…examining the effects of CMC on other criterion variables such as online uninhibited behavior, impression formation, social identity processes, idea generation, and group decision-making (Connolly et al., 1990; Lea, Spears, & de Groot, 2001; Meyers, Brashers, & Hanner, 2000; Tanis & Postmes, 2003).”
Committed to Share: Commitment and CMC Use as Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing (2004, background): “Thus, provided that the relevant social group and its attributes are known, the lack of social cues in CMC can ‘accentuate the unity of the group and cause persons to be perceived as group members rather than as idiosyncratic individuals’ (Tanis and Postmes, 2003).”
Preliminary Development of a Model and Measure of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Competence (2006, background): “…have tended to examine how CMC moderates such outcomes as impression formation (Hancock & Dunham, 2001; McKenna et al., 2002; O’Sullivan, 2000; Tanis & Postmes, 2003), impressions of appropriateness (Harper, 2002; Rice, 1993; Tidwell & Walther, 2002), effectiveness (Campbell & Neer, 2001;…”
Short Communication A social identity approach to trust: Interpersonal perception, group membership and trusting behaviour (2005, background): “These results mirror the finding that individuating information affects impressions people form of strangers through reducing ambiguity (Hancock & Dunham, 2001; Tanis & Postmes, 2003; Walther, Slovacek, & Tidwell, 2001).”