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Understanding stigmatization in digital sex work: Perceptions of camsite members and models 理解数字化性工作中的污名化：对营地成员和模特的看法

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108719

Margaret Bennett-Brown , Amanda N. Gesselman , Melissa Blundell Osorio , Ellen M. Kaufman , Jessica T. Campbell

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Task switching training when interacting with several virtual worlds simultaneously 同时与多个虚拟世界交互时的任务切换训练

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108708

Nirit Yuviler-Gavish, Yuval Blum Lazimi

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Enhancing mental health and resilience in war-affected youth: The impact of virtual reality-induced awe experiences 增强受战争影响青年的心理健康和复原力：虚拟现实诱发敬畏体验的影响

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108707

Anat Shoshani, Raz Hen

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Discursive consequences of social media hostility: Chilling effects, avoidance, and intervention behaviors of emerging adults in the U.S. and Indonesia 社交媒体敌意的话语后果：寒蝉效应、回避和干预行为在美国和印度尼西亚的新兴成年人

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108704

J. Matthes , G. Nguyen , K. Koban , R. Meerson , M. Khaleghipour , D.S. Garner , S. Bührer , T. Kirchmair

{"title":"Discursive consequences of social media hostility: Chilling effects, avoidance, and intervention behaviors of emerging adults in the U.S. and Indonesia","authors":"J. Matthes , G. Nguyen , K. Koban , R. Meerson , M. Khaleghipour , D.S. Garner , S. Bührer , T. Kirchmair","doi":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108704","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108704","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is mounting evidence that social media platforms facilitate the dissemination of hostility, potentially yielding detrimental effects on the discursive space. Exposure to such hostilities can be particularly problematic for emerging adults, given this age group's high sensitivity to social validation. Our study investigated how exposure to social media hostility can shape emerging adults' willingness to engage in or avoid social media discussions as well as their direct and indirect interventions. We also explored the moderating roles of prior victimization and online social support. Findings of quota-based surveys in the US and Indonesia suggest that exposure to hostility on social media can foster the willingness to engage in social media discussions and prompt emerging adults to curate their discursive spaces, either by blocking and avoiding hostile others or by counterspeech. Prior experiences of victimization and perceived online social support partly increased these associations, depending on the cultural setting. By and large, our findings demonstrate that emerging adults are active stewards of their social media environment rather than helpless victims.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48471,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Behavior","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 108704"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144170529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tracked but not trapped: Negotiating body tracking technologies for embodiment and privacy protection in VR 追踪但不被困：讨论身体追踪技术在VR中的体现和隐私保护

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108706

Kun Xu , Yunxiao Chen , Jiayue Li , Tony Liao , Sylvia Chan-Olmsted

{"title":"Tracked but not trapped: Negotiating body tracking technologies for embodiment and privacy protection in VR","authors":"Kun Xu , Yunxiao Chen , Jiayue Li , Tony Liao , Sylvia Chan-Olmsted","doi":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108706","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108706","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emerging virtual reality (VR) devices have been built with a range of tracking technologies, including hand tracking, head tracking, facial expression recognition, and eye tracking. These technologies enable users to experience virtual selves through diverse sensorimotor feedback. Meanwhile, body tracking has raised users' privacy concerns over the collection of biometric data. To understand how individuals perceive their embodiment experience and privacy risks, this study employs a blended approach, combining in-depth interviews and focus groups after engaging participants in multiple tracking-based VR activities. The findings suggest that body tracking elevated individuals’ sense of embodiment through five different bodily experiences. Moreover, due to networked privacy challenges along both spatial and temporal dimensions, participants preferred to deactivate facial recognition in virtual spaces. Our findings seek to provide an updated framework for the sense of embodiment and capture how individuals balance their bodily experiences and perceived privacy risks based on the promises and perils of tracking technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48471,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Behavior","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 108706"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144084593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Augmented youth: Prevalence and predictors of AR filter use on social media among adolescents 增强型青少年：青少年社交媒体上AR过滤器使用的流行程度和预测因素

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108686

Weiqi Tian , Eva A. van Reijmersdal , Remmert Daas , Helle Larsen , Jochen Peter

{"title":"Augmented youth: Prevalence and predictors of AR filter use on social media among adolescents","authors":"Weiqi Tian , Eva A. van Reijmersdal , Remmert Daas , Helle Larsen , Jochen Peter","doi":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explored adolescents’ active and passive use of augmented reality (AR) filters on social media, focusing on three main aspects: (1) the types and frequency of AR filters used, (2) the application targets of these filters and the closeness of the sources, and (3) the developmental, dispositional, and social predictors of such use. A cross-sectional survey (<em>N</em> = 797 Dutch adolescents aged 12 to 18) revealed that the majority of the adolescents used AR filters both actively and passively, although their usage is infrequent. Adolescents tended to use filters featuring textual overlays and fantasy transformations more frequently, both actively and passively. Adolescents most often received photos and video clips with AR filters from close contacts. The frequency of active AR filter use was higher among adolescents with greater fear of missing out (FoMO) and those with a larger number of friends who used AR filters, while it was lower among boys and adolescents with higher agreeableness. Higher sensation seeking and FoMO, along with having more friends who used AR filters, were associated with more frequent passive use. These findings provide initial insights into adolescents’ use of AR filters, setting the stage for a better understanding of the individual differences in this behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48471,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Behavior","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 108686"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144116351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is the metaverse failing? An exploratory study of self-employed artists and their resistance to NFTs 是虚拟世界在失败吗？个体户艺术家及其对nft的抵制探究

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108701

Yvonne O’ Connor, Katie O’ Reilly

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Reproducing age and sex biases in perceived pain intensity and prosocial behaviors using digital characters 使用数字角色再现感知疼痛强度和亲社会行为中的年龄和性别偏见

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108702

Carole Bélanger , Clémentine Pouliot , Marie-Hélène Tessier , Audrey Marcoux , Alex Cousineau , Jacqueline Nguyen Phuong Trieu , Philip L. Jackson

{"title":"Reproducing age and sex biases in perceived pain intensity and prosocial behaviors using digital characters","authors":"Carole Bélanger , Clémentine Pouliot , Marie-Hélène Tessier , Audrey Marcoux , Alex Cousineau , Jacqueline Nguyen Phuong Trieu , Philip L. Jackson","doi":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108702","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108702","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Empathy begins with the perception of others’ affective states (e.g., through facial expressions) and can lead to prosocial behaviors. These stages can be grouped into the empathy continuum. The latter can be influenced by several factors, including age and sex. One study by Gingras et al. (2021) investigated how these characteristics affect the first (perception) and last (help) stages of the empathy continuum for the pain of others. They found, using picture of patients, that more pain was perceived and more help was offered to older than younger and to male than female patients, but no interaction was found. Even if pain intensity was globally comparable across conditions, the stimuli were not controlled at the level of the different action units. The present study aimed to replicate previous findings using dynamic digital characters, thereby providing better control over stimuli. Fifty-seven participants (28 younger, 29 older; 29 males, 28 females) watched videos of eight digital characters (4 younger, 4 older; 4 males, 4 females) expressing pain and rated the intensity and the help they would offer. The findings replicated those of Gingras et al. (2021) with the addition of an age by sex interaction: older males received more help, and their pain was perceived as higher than older females. This work demonstrates age and sex biases in the empathy continuum in human-digital character interactions, highlights the intersection between ageism and sexism and shows the potential of digital characters to test research hypotheses in psychology with great experimental control.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48471,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Behavior","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 108702"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143948174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Conversational dynamics in social virtual reality: A large-scale, longitudinal study of speech acts and nonverbal behavior 社交虚拟现实中的会话动态：对言语行为和非言语行为的大规模纵向研究

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108691

Monique Santoso, Portia Wang, Eugy Han, Jeremy N. Bailenson

{"title":"Conversational dynamics in social virtual reality: A large-scale, longitudinal study of speech acts and nonverbal behavior","authors":"Monique Santoso, Portia Wang, Eugy Han, Jeremy N. Bailenson","doi":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108691","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108691","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores verbal interactions in social virtual reality (VR). We developed the Virtual Reality Interaction Dynamics Scheme (VRIDS), which includes 10 speech acts (e.g., questioning, opinions, disagreements) by integrating existing speech frameworks with new constructs from our data. Analyzing speech from 109 participants in a metaverse classroom over four weeks, we coded 9738 discourse units. VRIDS introduced new constructs like context-dependent commentary on virtual objects, which increased as users became more familiar with the technology over time. Idea sharing also increased over time, indicating enhanced collaboration. We identified attractor and repeller states through speech act sequences and an “echoing” strategy. Additionally, we examined the link between nonverbal behavior and speech acts; head and hand movements increased during questioning and context-dependent commentary but decreased during disagreements. Our database includes transcripts, speech acts, and nonverbal data. Future work will train large language models to recognize speech acts in VR.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48471,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Behavior","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 108691"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143928678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Screen time woes: Social media posting, scrolling, externalizing behaviors, and anxiety in adolescents 屏幕时间问题：青少年的社交媒体发帖、滚动、外化行为和焦虑

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Computers in Human Behavior Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108688

Eun Jung Choi , Ella Christiaans , Emma G. Duerden

{"title":"Screen time woes: Social media posting, scrolling, externalizing behaviors, and anxiety in adolescents","authors":"Eun Jung Choi , Ella Christiaans , Emma G. Duerden","doi":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108688","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chb.2025.108688","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Adolescent screen time use increased significantly during the pandemic. Excessive social media and prolonged screen use are risk factors for internalizing and externalizing behaviors. However, limited understanding remains of pre-existing factors that predispose adolescents to adverse outcomes, and how quantitative (e.g., time spent) and qualitative (e.g., screen use behaviors) aspects relate to mental health, including anxiety and emotional/behavioral difficulties. Understanding these links is critical for evidence-based recommendations in healthcare and education. A community-based sample of 580 adolescents aged 12–17 years participated in an online survey from December 2022–August 2023. Demographic data, pre-existing vulnerabilities, screen use, emotional and behavioral difficulties and anxiety were collected using self-report questionnaires. The time spent on screens during weekdays and weekends, as well as screen-use behaviors such as frequency of use, total time, passive scrolling, and content posting on social media were analyzed. Notably, about 45 % of adolescents without pre-existing vulnerabilities reported anxiety in the clinical range. The odds ratio analysis showed that exceeding 2 h of screen time on weekdays doubled the odds of clinically-elevated anxiety and quadrupled the odds of experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties. Although different aspects of screen use behaviors showed linear associations with mental health outcomes, passive scrolling had the strongest negative influence, even after controlling for age, gender, and pre-existing vulnerabilities, compared to active screen use or more general indicators (frequent and prolonged screen time). Managing screen time and activities based on individual mental health profiles, particularly regarding anxiety levels, may help support adolescent well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48471,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Behavior","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 108688"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143922061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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