The existing literature regarding social media use provides extant evidence supporting the claim that usage patterns ultimately have capability of impacting users. However, vast majority is based upon experimental laboratory settings where participants are observed by researchers. current article asserts there a significant deficiency within discipline validated measurement networking sites (SNSs) and offers guidance for those who may want to develop general measure.

ABSTRACT There is a well‐recognised mental health and wellbeing crisis among the undergraduate population in UK higher education. However, of postgraduate research students (PGRs) effectiveness university strategies supporting PGR are much less understood. Early shows that PGRs' impacted by their loneliness. These initial studies limited; however, primarily considering loneliness using qualitative approaches treating it as unidimensional phenomenon. Our study addresses these limitations,...

Abstract. The aims of this study were, first, to reassess the factor structure Iowa-Netherlands Social Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) and, second, explore associations its factors with Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) personality. Data from 337 respondents were collected via online questionnaire. Structural equation models used assess INCOM and test for relationships RST traits. results confirmed previous findings that contains two factors: Ability, which relates comparison...

This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting one’s gender to others reduces cooperation in Golden Balls game, variant prisoner’s dilemma game. Compared treatments where either participants’ true genders are revealed each other pair or no information on is given, treatment effects randomly selecting people be allowed misrepresent their defection positive, sizeable, and statistically significant. Allowing average rate by approximately 10–12 percentage...

Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that small deceptive act misrepresenting some about real others – social media-related commonly known as 'catfishing' increases likelihood individual will go on behave uncooperatively in an otherwise anonymous...

Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people’s daily interactions. The implications this new ability to hide one’s identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that small deceptive act misrepresenting some about real others – social media-related commonly known as ‘catfishing’ increases likelihood individual will go on behave uncooperatively in an otherwise anonymous...

New technology such as social media and dating apps have become a prevalent part of many people’s daily interactions in recent years. These platforms create opportunities for connection but also make it easy people to lie about their identity. Little academic research has investigated how the ability misrepresent one identity online on these affects cooperation. This paper investigates possibility that small deceptive act misrepresenting information one’s real others – behaviour commonly...