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No evidence for generational differences in the conventionalisation of face emojis 没有证据表明面部表情符号的传统存在代际差异

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100750

Vera Kempe , Limor Raviv

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Development of pixel-based facial thermal image analysis for emotion sensing 基于像素的面部热图像情感分析研究进展

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100761

Budu Tang , Wataru Sato , Koh Shimokawa , Chun-Ting Hsu , Takanori Kochiyama

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Multi-platform Campaigning: Web 2.0 adoption in Indonesia's 2020 regional elections 多平台竞选：Web 2.0在印尼2020年地区选举中的应用

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100776

Zuhairi Sanofi, Evie Ariadne Shinta Dewi, Hadi Suprapto Arifin, Dian Wardiana Sjuchro

{"title":"Multi-platform Campaigning: Web 2.0 adoption in Indonesia's 2020 regional elections","authors":"Zuhairi Sanofi, Evie Ariadne Shinta Dewi, Hadi Suprapto Arifin, Dian Wardiana Sjuchro","doi":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100776","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100776","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital technology has become an integral part of modern political campaigns, enabling candidates, especially at the local level, to leverage various social media platforms. This study analyzes multi-platform adoption patterns in the 2020 Indonesian Regional Elections by examining 2882 campaign accounts on Facebook (N = 1722), Instagram (N = 727), and X (N = 433). The findings reveal that Facebook is the primary platform for official campaign activities, compared to Instagram and X. Candidate characteristics, particularly age, significantly influence the adoption of Instagram as a platform for official campaign activities. In contrast, structural factors such as campaign team involvement and political party support influence strategies on Facebook and X. Furthermore, candidates primarily rely on official accounts managed by their campaign teams, rather than personal or supporter accounts, across all platforms. This trend correlates with stronger support for DPRD seats, which facilitate professional account management by providing better access to political resources, infrastructure, and coordinated communication strategies, thereby maximising the effectiveness of social media campaigns. This study provides valuable insights into the strategic use of social media in the context of general elections, highlighting implications for political actors navigating digital campaigns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72681,"journal":{"name":"Computers in human behavior reports","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100776"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development and evaluation of zoomorphic gestural communication on a spot quadruped robot 现场四足机器人兽形手势通信的开发与评价

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100749

Marisa Bucolo , Jonathan Roberts , Jared Donovan , Matthew Dunbabin

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Digital resource engagement, health challenges, and mathematical achievement in school children: An in-depth analysis of PISA data 2022 数字资源参与、健康挑战和学龄儿童的数学成就：对2022年PISA数据的深入分析

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100782

Dirgha Raj Joshi , Jeevan Khanal

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“Choose what suits you”: The role of relative competency strength in shaping job applicants’ reactions and strategies toward AI-based interview “选择适合你的”：相对能力优势在塑造求职者对人工智能面试的反应和策略方面的作用

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100777

Jiaxuan Wang , Jinghao Zhang , Julie N.Y. Zhu , Liying Bai

{"title":"“Choose what suits you”: The role of relative competency strength in shaping job applicants’ reactions and strategies toward AI-based interview","authors":"Jiaxuan Wang , Jinghao Zhang , Julie N.Y. Zhu , Liying Bai","doi":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100777","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100777","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in work contexts significantly breeds organizational practices of AI-based personnel recruitment and selection in recent years. Despite its benefits for organizations, whether job applicants favor the adoption of AI-based interview remains unclear. In the present research, we draw on expectancy theory to propose a contingent model explaining when and why applicants are more willing to accept an AI-based interview (vs. human-based interview). We introduce relative competency strength to identify whether AI-based interviews fit their applicants' unique competency. Across three experimental studies (total <em>N</em> = 760), we found that AI-based interview (vs. human-based interview) induced both higher uniqueness neglect expectations and higher fairness expectations of applicants. Moreover, applicants' relative competency strength moderated the impacts on both expectations separately. Specifically, applicants with higher cognitive competency strength had stronger fairness expectations and applicants with higher non-cognitive competency strength had stronger uniqueness neglect expectations, which further differentiated their subsequent job seeking strategies. Overall, our research implies that job applicants' reactions toward AI-based interviews depend on their recognition of their relative competency strength, suggesting an adaptive approach to job applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72681,"journal":{"name":"Computers in human behavior reports","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100777"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144860472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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StudentSense: Primary outcomes of a smartphone digital phenotyping study of university students in Australia StudentSense：澳大利亚大学生智能手机数字表型研究的主要结果

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100769

Tianyi Zhang , Melissa Russell , Vassilis Kostakos , Simon D'Alfonso

{"title":"StudentSense: Primary outcomes of a smartphone digital phenotyping study of university students in Australia","authors":"Tianyi Zhang , Melissa Russell , Vassilis Kostakos , Simon D'Alfonso","doi":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100769","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100769","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>University students face increasing mental health challenges, yet traditional assessment methods often lack timeliness and contextual relevance. This study presents StudentSense, a digital phenotyping investigation examining associations between smartphone-sensed behavior and psychological wellbeing over a 17-week academic semester. A total of 151 students from the University of Melbourne participated, providing continuous passive smartphone data (e.g., screen activity, app usage, location, keyboard, and on-screen text) and self-reported assessment data, including the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF), College Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (CSSWQ), and UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8). We used Monte Carlo subsampling correlation analysis to explore relationships between behavioral and psychometric variables. Findings showed that levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and loneliness declined following the examination periods. Screen usage was positively correlated with the reported level of a loneliness item, while time spent at significant locations (e.g., university, home) was negatively correlated with depression. Students reporting higher wellbeing and extroversion reported more positive university experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72681,"journal":{"name":"Computers in human behavior reports","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100769"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144827581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A psychological framework for social skill acquisition in immersive VR environments: Conceptualization, application, and empirical evaluation 沉浸式虚拟现实环境中社交技能习得的心理框架：概念化、应用和实证评估

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100765

Yannik A. Escher , Hannes M. Petrowsky , Friederike Knabbe , Poldi Kuhl , David D. Loschelder

{"title":"A psychological framework for social skill acquisition in immersive VR environments: Conceptualization, application, and empirical evaluation","authors":"Yannik A. Escher , Hannes M. Petrowsky , Friederike Knabbe , Poldi Kuhl , David D. Loschelder","doi":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100765","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100765","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ability to navigate complex social situations is central for human interaction. Yet, effective trainings in (psychologically) safe environments for the acquisition of widely applicable social skills remain elusive. We suggest enhancing individuals' social skills and their antecedents through virtual reality (VR) to address this gap. Our research seeks to conceptualize, apply, and empirically evaluate a novel framework for social skill acquisition in immersive environments. Using a specifically developed job-interview training, we employ a preregistered 2 × 3 mixed intervention design (<em>N</em> = 114), comparing VR-based vs. chat-based trainings across three measurement waves (before vs. immediately after vs. four months after training). Results show that our VR intervention significantly improved individuals' job-interview self-efficacy and lowered their task-related anxiety. The chat-based intervention had similarly favorable effects. The positive effects on self-efficacy and anxiety from both trainings persisted over four months. The VR training, however, required only 50% of the training time for comparable success, and participants reported a preference for the VR experience—recalling it more vividly and expressing a higher willingness to reengage in similar trainings. Mediation results align with our proposed framework for social skill acquisition in immersive environments and establish VR's effectiveness through key psychological pathways—physiological arousal, as well as cognitive and motivational factors. Our work contributes a conceptual framework to the growing body of literature on learning in VR and empirically highlights that VR trainings can provide an engaging and efficient method for training complex social behaviors in a simulated, safe, standardized, and scalable environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72681,"journal":{"name":"Computers in human behavior reports","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100765"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emotional dynamics and engagement cycles in swiping dating apps: An agent-based modeling approach 滑动约会应用的情感动态和参与周期：基于主体的建模方法

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100775

Herald Cela , Michael Vogrin , Thomas Schmickl , Guilherme Wood

{"title":"Emotional dynamics and engagement cycles in swiping dating apps: An agent-based modeling approach","authors":"Herald Cela , Michael Vogrin , Thomas Schmickl , Guilherme Wood","doi":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100775","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100775","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Swiping dating apps have transformed mate selection by providing users with rapid access to a large pool of potential partners. Yet, repeated exposure to implicit rejection and unmet expectations may cause emotional fatigue and cyclical patterns of disengagement. This study explores how emotional dynamics drive engagement on such platforms, with attention to the moderating roles of gender and relationship-seeking strategy. We developed an agent-based model simulating 500 agents over a 30-day period. Agents interacted based on gender and strategic orientation (casual, serious, hybrid), with emotional states regulated through a control-theoretic framework that tracks discrepancies between expected and actual outcomes. Results revealed a steady emotional decline across all groups, accompanied by fluctuating engagement patterns. Male agents exhibited higher emotional states and greater behavioral volatility, marked by increased disengagement and re-engagement tendencies. Relationship-seeking strategy showed less consistent effects, with some variation in behavioral stability across outcomes. These findings highlight the emotional cost of prolonged app use and the influence of user characteristics on retention patterns. We advocate for emotionally responsive platform design—such as recovery prompts and expectation management tools—to reduce churn and improve user well-being. Policymakers and designers should consider the psychological implications of sustained swiping-based engagement, including the potential for compulsive use.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72681,"journal":{"name":"Computers in human behavior reports","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100775"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A unified protocol chatbot reduces anxiety by encouraging university students’ negative emotional expressions: A randomized controlled trial 一项随机对照试验：统一协议聊天机器人通过鼓励大学生消极的情绪表达来减少焦虑

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Computers in human behavior reports Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100770

Kenji Yokotani , Masaya Ito , Nao Ihara , Yuko Shigeeda

{"title":"A unified protocol chatbot reduces anxiety by encouraging university students’ negative emotional expressions: A randomized controlled trial","authors":"Kenji Yokotani , Masaya Ito , Nao Ihara , Yuko Shigeeda","doi":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100770","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100770","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The use of chatbot services has been rising in the field of mental health; however, the therapeutic mechanism underlying them remains unclear. Hence, through a randomized controlled trial, we aimed to show that a chatbot utilizing a Unified Protocol (UP) for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders—referred to as the UP chatbot—could reduce symptoms of anxiety in university students by encouraging their negative emotional expressions. We randomly assigned 310 Japanese university students to one of four groups: one that received only the UP chatbot service; one that received only the UP guidance service; one that received both services; and a waitlist group that did not receive any service. Over an 8-week intervention and a 4-week follow-up, the participants filled out questionnaires assessing symptoms of anxiety and depression. Additionally, we employed sentiment analysis to examine their emotional expressions with the chatbot. Our analysis of a latent growth curve modeling indicated that the participants in the group receiving only the UP chatbot service reported significantly higher reductions in symptoms of anxiety than the waitlist group; these effects were sustained during the follow-up. Furthermore, they demonstrated significantly stronger expressions of sadness than the waitlist group. Thus, the UP chatbot, similar to the UP human therapist, may have encouraged the participants to express negative emotions, facilitated emotional acceptance, and reduced their anxiety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72681,"journal":{"name":"Computers in human behavior reports","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100770"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144830301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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