Digitalized communication has provoked significant changes in human interaction culture, affecting private as well as work-related settings Often, emojis or emoticons are used to enrich and disambiguate written messages The aim of the present experiment was to investigate prevalence and motives of using emojis or emoticons in job-related written messages, as well as their potential effects on impression formation Participants read an e-mail presumably written by a male... } weiterlesen
Tinder, eine Smartphone-App, die 2012 in den USA entwickelt wurde, verbreitet sich auch in Deutschland rasant und wird gemeinhin mit Mobile-Dating in Verbindung gebracht Ziel der vorliegenden Studie war es zunächst, Tinder anhand funktionaler Aspekte zu beschreiben, welche die Popularität zu erklären erlauben Anhand einer Onlinebefragung von N = 817 Probanden wurde analysiert, wer Tinder in Deutschland in welcher Art und Weise nutzt Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Tinder... } weiterlesen
Studies show that frequent exposure to individuals meeting normative beauty ideals in (social) media can damage one's body image and self-esteem Furthermore, eating and body dysmorphic disorders are promoted, especially among young women According to Festinger's Theory of Social Comparison (1954), the level of attractiveness of the comparison standard is a key factor in the process, while Mussweiler's Selective Accessibility Model (2003) suggests focus of comparison as an... } weiterlesen
