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This exploratory study examines a subset of mobile phone use, the compulsive use of short message service (SMS) text messaging. A measure of SMS use, the SMS Problem Use Diagnostic Questionnaire (SMS-PUDQ), was developed and found to possess acceptable reliability and validity when compared to other measures such as self-reports of time spent using SMS and scores on a survey of problem mobile phone use. Implications for the field of addiction research, technological and behavioral addictions in particular, are discussed, and directions for future research are suggested.

The present study examines the influence of the personality construct of self-monitoring on gender related biases in personnel selection decisions. Selection and starting salary decisions were made by subjects in one of two formats, where decision making involved using a comparative strategy or a noncomparative decision making strategy. Regardless of the decision strategy, high self-monitors, relative to low self-monitors were found to offer higher starting salaries to applicants who were gender appropriate for the job.

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