Jeff Hancock
Affordances and the Psychology of Social Media
FaceBook Self-Affirmation Technique
Self-Affirming
View your profile
Toma & Hancock (2013) PSPB
FaceBook Self-Affirmation Technique
Self-Affirming
View your profile
Control
View someone else’s profile
yoked profile
Toma & Hancock (2013) PSPB
Toma & Hancock (2013) PSPB
Toma & Hancock (2013) PSPB
Music
News
Games
YouTube
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After Neutral Feedback
= 30.8% Facebook
Music
News
Games
YouTube
After Negative Feedback
= 59.6%
χ2(1,N=86)=7.11,p=0.01
Toma & Hancock (2013) PSPB
Golder&Macy(2011).Science.
N=689,003
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% Positive Posts Withheld
% Random Posts Withheld
% Random Posts Withheld
% Negative Posts
Kramer, Guillory & Hancock (2014) PNAS
N=689,003
% Negative Posts Withheld
% Positive Posts Withheld
% Random Posts Withheld
% Random Posts Withheld
Less NegativeMore Positive
% Negative Posts
Less PositiveMore Negative
Kramer, Guillory & Hancock (2014) PNAS
Condition Activity Instructions
Social support Text a Friend
SMS text conversation during surgery
Social interaction Text a Stranger
Distraction Angry Birds Play during surgery
Control Nothing Normal surgery
Mediated Social Support and Surgery
ROOM IN NEW YORK (1932)
EDWARD HOPPER
Jeff Hancockwith
Catalina TomaJamie GuilloryAdam KramerChris Woodruff
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