Understanding the Psychology of Internet Behaviour: Virtual Worlds, Real Lives

By Adam N. Joinson. 2002

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Effects of anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye-contact on toxic online disinhibition (2012, background): “/fax: +972 77 ). cyberspace in various online interpersonal behaviors (Chiou, 2006; Joinson, 1998, 2003, 2007; Rosen, Cheever, Cummings, & Felt, 2008; Suler, 2004).”
Sexual Harassment on the Internet (2005, background): “Joinson (2003), in a thoughtful review, explored how new technological tools have constructive, positive aspects for people’s advancement and joy, as well as destructive, negative aspects that humiliate, terrorize, and block social progress.”
Prediction of Human Behavior in Human--Robot Interaction Using Psychological Scales for Anxiety and Negative Attitudes Toward Robots (2008, background): “However, we are concerned that some people might have difficulty in accepting such novel robots.”
Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging (2008, background): “While there is a long history of technological advances enhancing the nature of interpersonal interaction (see Joinson, 2003 for a 0747-5632/$ - see front matter 2007 Elsevier Ltd.”
Cyberbullying by Adolescents: A Preliminary Assessment (2006, unknown): “She told her mother, and the police were called to investigate (Joinson 2003).”
Online information, extreme communities and internet therapy: Is the internet good for our mental health? (2007, background): “This is also a crucial point when trying to determine the effect of the internet on mental health, as any psychological consequences will depend on the activities that the technology enables, the attributes of the user, and how the two interact (Joinson, 2003).”
Nomophobia: Dependency on virtual environments or social phobia? (2013, unknown): “According to Joinson (2002) and Joinson, Reips, Buchanan, and Paine-Schofield (2011), the internet is transforming business, education, and perhaps even ourselves and there is a tendency for people to access information more commonly avoided in real life.”
Addiction to mobile text messaging applications is nothing to “lol” about (2014, background): “In general, researchers have examined various effects of personality traits on consumer behaviors for different forms of CMC technology (e.g., Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007; Joinson, 2003; Kraut et al., 1998, 2002; Walther, 1996; Valkenburg, Schouten, & Peter, 2005; Valkenburg & Peter, 2007).”
The Faces of Facebookers: Investigating Social Enhancement and Social Compensation Hypotheses; Predicting FacebookTM and Offline Popularity from Sociability and Self-Esteem, and Mapping the Meanings of Popularity with Semantic Networks (2008, background): “Self-presentation refers to a person’s effort to express a specific image and identity to others (Baumeister, Tice, & Hutton, 1989; Joinson, 2003).”
Who Tweets? Deriving the Demographic Characteristics of Age, Occupation and Social Class from Twitter User Meta-Data (2015, background): “The exponential uptake of the Internet, beyond this particular group of early adopters, was accompanied with a shift in the presentation of self online resulting in a reduction in online identity-play [32].”