Who needs friends? Personality as a predictor of social surrogate use

Derrick, Jaye L.; Keefer, Lucas A.; Troisi, Jordan D.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.10.028

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“…Meanwhile, we identify relevance and esteem as means to increase individual emotional resonance, consistent with previous studies ( Sundar et al, 2015 ; Roberts and Lyons, 2017 ; Taylor and Gibson, 2017 ; Kim, 2018 ; Derrick et al, 2019 ). This allows the manager to respect how participants care about what topics and how they can make meaningful choices based on interactive experiences.…”

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“…Engaging in esthetic activities can catalyze personal growth and transformation. While appreciating exhibits, consistent with the literature, discussion of multiple meanings and exchanging thematic ideas is important as there are multiple co-creative interpretations and knowledge that can be constructed (Harvey et al, 1998;Jafari et al, 2013;Allen and Crowley, 2014;Kim, 2018;Derrick et al, 2019). Participants in this study mentioned they better appreciated exhibits due to the additional interaction and involvement available through social communication technology.…”

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confidence: 60%

“…Participants in this study mentioned they better appreciated exhibits due to the additional interaction and involvement available through social communication technology. The active museum's online communities played a facilitator role in those visitors' online experiences, which brought about a greater focus and engagement (Chi, 2011;Sawyer et al, 2011;Barker, 2015;Taylor and Gibson, 2017;Derrick et al, 2019;Pierdicca et al, 2019). Museum online community and discussion forums allow participants to express different perspectives about the same exhibition and listen to each other.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… Sylaiou et al (2010) view involvement as the ways in which an individual’s experience interacts with how they understand the world. However, Derrick et al (2019) argue that users can satisfy the need for belonging to a community through these social relationships and the involvement of communities. Online museum communities are now collaborative and co-creative platforms without a formal contract: members make voluntary contributions and exhibit automated interactive involvement.…”

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Participating in Online Museum Communities: An Empirical Study of Taiwan’s Undergraduate Students

Chen

Lai

2021

Front. Psychol.

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With the worldwide spread of the Internet, human activity has become permeated by digital media, which shapes communication and interaction and speeds up the improvement of the experience and diffusion of museum exhibitions. Contemporary museums must understand their audiences, especially with respect to online preferences and surfing involvement experiences. Museums are changing in an effort to attract young netizens to access and use museum resources. Virtual museums are increasingly using digital exhibitions to preserve and apply their collections and establishing online community platforms to interact with young people. This study investigates the underlying mechanism of online community characteristics that enhance audiences’ emotional resonance and involvement. Results from a questionnaire survey (N = 1168) of Taiwan undergraduate students show that perceived relevance and esteem improve their emotional resonance, which can attract new people and maintain existing relationships within their communities. Following flow theory, maintaining community relationship characteristics increases emotional resonance, which, in turn, enhances user involvement, but we found only small significant effects of emotional resonance on involvement. These findings illuminate the mechanism of the attitudinal relationship building and maintenance for online museum communities and advance the practical contributions of online museum community use and effects.

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Section: Discussion and Limitations Discussionsupporting

confidence: 60%

Section: Discussion and Limitations Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Foundationsmentioning

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Participating in Online Museum Communities: An Empirical Study of Taiwan’s Undergraduate Students

Chen

Lai

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Though not conclusive, some findings have yielded support for this concept. For instance, for those who had social challenges such as factors related to cognition (McCutcheon et al 2003 ), anxiety (Cole and Leets 1999 ; Green and Brock 1998 ; Papachrissi and Rubin 2000 ), introversion (Weaver 2003 ), fear of rejection (Derrick et al 2019 ), loneliness (Greenwood and Long 2009 ), or self-esteem (Derrick et al 2008 ), engaging in parasocial behaviors significantly aided some measures of well-being. Another study found PSI helpful for those who had experienced trauma, but not for those post traumatic with stress disorder (Gabriel et al 2017 ).…”

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Parasocial Interaction, the COVID-19 Quarantine, and Digital Age Media

Jarzyna¹

2020

Hu Arenas

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Parasocial interaction, or the one-sided relationships individuals form with characters from television and other media can have negative and positive outcomes. By noting the positive aspects of parasocial interaction and implementing them, individuals can improve their well-being. For instance, while parasocial interaction should not replace real relationships, the behavior can supplement them in filling social needs and decreasing loneliness. Such interaction is helpful for individuals when socialization is not attractive or possible due to a variety of causes. While this type of supplementation has typically been studied in the context of internal shortcomings, it likely also occurs when social deficits are invoked externally, such as through long-term work in remote areas. With the explosion of digital media in the last 25 years, opportunities to augment the fulfillment provided by real relationships with parasocialization have never been so great. Moreover, the recent COVID-19 quarantine greatly restricted real socialization. Those who live alone had e-mail and video calls to sustain them, but virtually no physical contact if they abided quarantine rules. During this time, people appear to have relied on social media and binge-watching streamed series to give themselves a feeling of connection with others more than ever before. The effect of such social surrogacy during the quarantine is only one of many parasocial interaction topics that emerge in the wake of the first wave. This paper will review the relevant digital era literature on parasocial interaction and suggest several areas of exploration into the phenomenon contributed uniquely by the quarantine.

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The association between consumers' chronic concerns about infectious disease and anthropomorphism

Whelan,

Hingston

2024

Psychology and Marketing

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Assigning human characteristics to products and brands (i.e., anthropomorphism) is a tactic commonly adopted by marketers. However, researchers have recently highlighted the importance of better understanding which consumers will be more (or less) responsive to these cues. Drawing on the behavioral immune system and anthropomorphism literatures, we hypothesize that consumers who are chronically concerned about their susceptibility to infectious disease will have a greater tendency to anthropomorphize nonhuman entities (e.g., nature, technology, and consumer products) because doing so creates relatively pathogen‐free sources of social connection. Importantly, we also predict that this tendency will be muted when consumers are highly germ averse. To test these predictions, we examined the relationships between perceived infectability and germ aversion, the two subscales of the established Perceived Vulnerability to Disease scale, and three different measures of consumers' tendency to anthropomorphize nonhuman entities. The results of four studies, including a preregistered, high‐powered replication, support our hypotheses and offer the first evidence of a context wherein perceived infectability and germ aversion interact.

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Who needs friends? Personality as a predictor of social surrogate use

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Participating in Online Museum Communities: An Empirical Study of Taiwan’s Undergraduate Students

Participating in Online Museum Communities: An Empirical Study of Taiwan’s Undergraduate Students

Parasocial Interaction, the COVID-19 Quarantine, and Digital Age Media

The association between consumers' chronic concerns about infectious disease and anthropomorphism

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