Category: computer-mediated communication

Online Incivility by Supervisors May Lead People to Quit

A recent study by Giumetti et al ((Giumetti, G., McKibben, E., Hatfield, A., Schroeder, A., & Kowalski, R. (2012). Cyber Incivility @ Work: The New Age of Interpersonal Deviance Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking,...

Should You Personalize Mass E-mails?

In an upcoming issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Maslowska, van den Putte and Smit ((Maslowska, E., Putte, B., & Smit, E. (2011). The Effectiveness of Personalized E-mail Newsletters and the Role of...

The Personality of Immersion in Video Games and Virtual Worlds

A recent study by Weibel, Wissmath and Mast (2010) examines the Big Five personality correlates of immersion in virtual environments, finding that high Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, and Extraversion are positively related to the tendency to be immersed.