Robin M Kowalski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1561989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin M Kowalski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kowalski |
| SIGNATURE | KOWALSKI R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9667-3116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Legacy of Violence: Columbine’s Role in Shaping Public Perception and School Shootings
University Shooting Threats on Social Media: How Content of Threat Affects Recognition, Threat Appraisal, and Willingness for Peers to Intervene
Threat-related content on social media, including university shooting threats, can precede acts of violence. However, little is known about how well digital bystanders recognize and respond to such posts. Across two studies, college students’ recognition of and reported willingness to intervene with university shooting threats on a social media platform were assessed. In Study 1, participants (N = 709) viewed randomized mock X feeds containing ma…
The Predictors and Consequences of Cyberbullying Perpetration and Cyber‐Victimization: The Development of a New Cyberbullying Theory
INTRODUCTION: Extensive research has demonstrated the deleterious effects of both cyberbullying perpetration and cyberbullying victimization on youth and adults alike. Most research, to date, is segmented into focusing on the predictors of cyberbullying perpetration or the outcomes of being cyber-victimized, which presents an incomplete theoretical understanding of cyberbullying. Therefore, the current research tests a novel theory that combines …
Well, That Was a Rude Exchange! A Multi‐Study Examination of Trust as a Mediator Between Cyberbullying or Cyber Incivility Victimization and Relational Outcomes at Work
Guided by social exchange theory, we conducted two experiments and a longitudinal field study to examine the role of trust as a mediator between victimization from two forms of online mistreatment (cyber‐incivility and cyberbullying) and three relational outcomes: supervisor satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). In Experiment 1, 90 employees were randomly assigned to read email exc…
Cybercrime through the public lens: A longitudinal analysis
In the digital age, cybercrime has emerged as a formidable challenge with complex human and socio-economic ramifications. This study delves into the multifaceted impacts of cybercrime by analyzing public sentiments and societal reactions as reflected in online discourses, specifically within the realm of Reddit. Through a detailed extraction process focused on cybercrime-related keywords, our analysis delved into over 6700 posts and 100,000+ comm…
Fictitious online victimization: “I say that you say I’m a loser”
Technology-Facilitated Sexual Exploitation Module of the SES-V: Prevalence and Differential Vulnerability Across Two U.S. National Samples
Sexual exploitation represents a significant public health problem. One form of sexual exploitation that warrants urgent attention is technology-facilitated sexual exploitation (TFSE), especially given rapid increases in digital technology and social media usage, particularly among young people. The newly updated Sexual Experiences Survey (SES-V), a measure of sexual exploitation, now includes a module to measure TFSE. Using data from an online s…
Mattering Matters: Examining the Moderating Role of Mattering in Cyberbullying Victimization-Outcome Relationships Among College Students
Recognized as a public health threat, cyberbullying victimization (CV), or bullying experienced through digital technologies, is mostly studied among adolescents, but evidence among college students suggests that it is prevalent and linked with negative outcomes. One protective factor that might reduce the impact of CV is mattering, which involves feeling significant and valued by others. In this study, we explored five hypotheses, including exam…
The Revised Sexual Experiences Survey Victimization Version (SES-V): Conceptualization, Modifications, Items and Scoring
The Sexual Experiences Survey [SES] is considered the gold standard measure of non-consensual sexual experiences. This article introduces a new victimization version [SES-V] developed by a multidisciplinary collaboration, the first revision since 2007. The 2024 SES-V is designed to measure the construct of sexual exploitation since the 14th birthday. Notable revisions are adoption of a freely given permission standard for non-consent, introductio…
Expanding the Sexual Experiences Survey to Include Technology Facilitated Sexual Exploitation
The Sexual Experiences Survey is the most widely used measure of sexual assault victimization and perpetration among college students. To improve comprehensiveness and inclusiveness, the current revision of the victimization items of the SES (SES-V; Koss et al., 2024) included the addition of a module focusing on Technology Facilitated Sexual Exploitation (TFSE). The current paper outlines why the inclusion of items related to TFSE was necessary,…
Preliminary Evidence of Validity for the Verbally Pressured and Illegal Sexual Exploitation Modules of the Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization
The Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization (SES-V; see Koss et al., 2024) revises the prior 2007 Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) in many ways, including expanded measurement of verbally pressured and illegal sexual exploitation, as well as the addition of items that assess being made to perform a sexual act or to penetrate another person sexually. The current article describes two initial validity studies of the SES-…
Psychological dread and extreme persistent fear
Psychological dread is a phenomenon with which virtually everyone is familiar, whether dreading a medical appointment, a job interview, or the impending death of a loved one. Despite the prevalence of dread in most people's everyday lives, surprisingly little empirical research has explored the construct. The purpose of the current research was to examine psychological dread (Study 1 and Study 2) and to compare dread to extreme persistent fear (S…
Cyberbullying research — Alignment to sustainable development and impact of Covid-19: Bibliometrics and science mapping analysis
The explosive growth and online media usage have transformed the communication landscape globally. Social media platforms have become a thriving ground for online exploitation and Cyberbullying, a high priority challenge in many countries (Gottschalk, 2022). Our study aims to provide a bibliometric overview of Cyberbullying research between 2010 and 2021, including a new analysis through the lens of sustainable development and the impact of COVID…
I just want to matter: Examining the role of anti-mattering in online suicide support communities using natural language processing
Cyberbullying via social media and well-being
Predictors and outcomes of cyberbullying among college students: A two wave study
Existing research on cyberbullying has primarily focused on adolescents in cross‐sectional survey studies, with less research focusing on college students or employed adults over longer periods of time. To extend this literature, the current study examined new predictors and outcomes of cyberbullying perpetration (CP) and victimization (CV) among college students from two different universities that were followed across two time points. Risk fact…
Finding the silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis
Research has confirmed there is a silver lining to many aversive experiences and that negative occurrences can be an opportunity for post-traumatic growth (PTG). To investigate benefit-finding in the COVID-19 crisis, 179 MTurk workers were surveyed. Participants reported dips in satisfaction with work, leisure, fitness, mental health, and finances in the midst of the pandemic, relative to 6 months prior and in the future. Benefit-finding in COVID…
Protection Motivation and the Covid-19 Virus
The current study examined the role of the components of the Protection Motivation Theory of Health (PMT) in predicting protective health behaviors related to the COVID-19 virus. Through a snowball sampling procedure, in Wave 1 424 respondents completed a survey in March 2020. One hundred thirteen of these participants completed the same survey in Wave 2 in May 2020. Consistent with research on SARS, females and older individuals engaged in the b…
K-12, college/university, and mass shootings: Similarities and differences
In a 2003 study, we examined five antecedents of school shootings - a history of rejection, acute rejection experience, history of psychological problems, fascination with death or violence, and fascination with guns. In three studies, the current project examined the role of these factors in 57 K-12 shootings, 24 college/university shootings, and 77 mass shootings that occurred since the original study. Over half of all shooters had a history of…
Racial differences in cyberbullying from the perspective of victims and perpetrators
Although cyberbullying has attracted a good deal of research attention in recent years, we know much less about how cyberbullying differs by race and ethnicity, and the few studies that have examined this topic have yielded conflicting findings. In the current study, 352 White and Black respondents answered questions about their victimization and perpetration experiences with both traditional bullying and cyberbullying. More than 80% of both Whit…
A developmental approach to cyberbullying: Prevalence and protective factors
Public- and self-stigma attached to physical versus psychological disabilities
Psychology
With CyberPsych Print and Interactive E-Text
Complaining, Teasing, and Other Annoying Behaviors
Everyone has teased, nagged, betrayed, or lied to another person. Likewise, everyone has been the unfortunate object of such unpleasant behaviors. In this intriguing book, social psychologist Robin M. Kowalski examines the intricacies of six annoying interpersonal behaviors: complaining, teasing, breaches of propriety, worry and reassurance-seeking, lying, and betrayal. She considers the functions of these behaviors, the types of people who are i…
Cyberbullying among Youth with and without Disabilities
Teasing, rejection, and violence: Case studies of the school shootings
Media commentators have suggested that recent school shootings were precipitated by social rejection, but no empirical research has examined this claim. Case studies were conducted of 15 school shootings between 1995 and 2001 to examine the possible role of social rejection in school violence. Acute or chronic rejection—in the form of ostracism, bullying, and/or romantic rejection—was present in all but two of the incidents. In addition, the shoo…
Complaints and complaining: Functions, antecedents, and consequences
Although everyone complains at least occasionally, surprisingly little research attention has been devoted to the topic of complaining. In this review, complaints are defined as expressions of dissatisfaction, whether subjectively experienced or not, for the purpose of venting emotions or achieving intrapsychic goals, interpersonal goals, or both. A theoretical model of complaining is presented that examines the relationship between self-focus, t…
Deconstructing The Myth Of The Nonaggressive Woman: A Feminist Analysis
One of the most pervasive and undisputed gender stereotypes is that men are more aggressive than women. However, this stereotype has, until recently, led researchers to conclude that women are nonaggressive and, therefore, to ignore the topic of female aggression as a distinct phenomenon. The basis of the myth, factors supporting its maintenance, and theories of female aggression are examined. A feminist reinterpretation of aggression that views …
Inferring sexual interest from behavioral cues: Effects of gender and sexually relevant attitudes
Strategic self-presentation and the avoidance of aversive events: Antecedents and consequences of self-enhancement and self-depreciation
Lying, Cheating, Complaining, and Other Aversive Interpersonal Behaviors: A Narrative Examination of the Darker Side of Relationships
People do a lot of mean and nasty things to one another. Collectively, these behaviors are referred to as aversive interpersonal behaviors. To examine the structural elements of different aversive interpersonal behaviors and individual differences in perceptions of those behaviors, 96 male and 149 female students each wrote a victim narrative and a perpetrator narrative about one of seven aversive behaviors: betrayal, lying, improprieties, teasin…
The Social Stigma of Menstruation: Fact or Fiction
In a study examining the effects of a social stigma on impression management concerns, 28 menstruating and 30 nonmenstruating women were interviewed by a male confederate who either was or was not aware of their menstrual condition. Relative to menstruating women who thought the interviewer was unaware of their menstrual condition, menstruating women who believed that the interviewer knew they were menstruating perceived that the interviewer like…
Preliminary Evidence of Validity for the Verbally Pressured and Illegal Sexual Exploitation Modules of the Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization
The Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization (SES-V; see Koss et al., 2024) revises the prior 2007 Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) in many ways, including expanded measurement of verbally pressured and illegal sexual exploitation, as well as the addition of items that assess being made to perform a sexual act or to penetrate another person sexually. The current article describes two initial validity studies of the SES-…
The Revised Sexual Experiences Survey Victimization Version (SES-V): Conceptualization, Modifications, Items and Scoring
The Sexual Experiences Survey [SES] is considered the gold standard measure of non-consensual sexual experiences. This article introduces a new victimization version [SES-V] developed by a multidisciplinary collaboration, the first revision since 2007. The 2024 SES-V is designed to measure the construct of sexual exploitation since the 14th birthday. Notable revisions are adoption of a freely given permission standard for non-consent, introductio…
Predictors and outcomes of cyberbullying among college students: A two wave study
Existing research on cyberbullying has primarily focused on adolescents in cross‐sectional survey studies, with less research focusing on college students or employed adults over longer periods of time. To extend this literature, the current study examined new predictors and outcomes of cyberbullying perpetration (CP) and victimization (CV) among college students from two different universities that were followed across two time points. Risk fact…
Finding the silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis
Research has confirmed there is a silver lining to many aversive experiences and that negative occurrences can be an opportunity for post-traumatic growth (PTG). To investigate benefit-finding in the COVID-19 crisis, 179 MTurk workers were surveyed. Participants reported dips in satisfaction with work, leisure, fitness, mental health, and finances in the midst of the pandemic, relative to 6 months prior and in the future. Benefit-finding in COVID…
Expanding the Sexual Experiences Survey to Include Technology Facilitated Sexual Exploitation
The Sexual Experiences Survey is the most widely used measure of sexual assault victimization and perpetration among college students. To improve comprehensiveness and inclusiveness, the current revision of the victimization items of the SES (SES-V; Koss et al., 2024) included the addition of a module focusing on Technology Facilitated Sexual Exploitation (TFSE). The current paper outlines why the inclusion of items related to TFSE was necessary,…
Self-presentational concerns and social anxiety: The role of generalized impression expectancies
Psychological dread and extreme persistent fear
Psychological dread is a phenomenon with which virtually everyone is familiar, whether dreading a medical appointment, a job interview, or the impending death of a loved one. Despite the prevalence of dread in most people's everyday lives, surprisingly little empirical research has explored the construct. The purpose of the current research was to examine psychological dread (Study 1 and Study 2) and to compare dread to extreme persistent fear (S…
Self-presentational concerns and social anxiety: The role of generalized impression expectancies
Impression management: A literature review and two-component model
Impression management, the process by which people control the impressions others form of them, plays an important role in interpersonal behavior. This article presents a 2-component model within which the literature regarding impression management is reviewed. This model conceptualizes im-pression management as being composed of 2 discrete processes. The 1st involves impression moti-vation—the degree to which people are motivated to control how …
Impression management: A literature review and two-component model
Strategic self-presentation and the avoidance of aversive events: Antecedents and consequences of self-enhancement and self-depreciation
Inferring sexual interest from behavioral cues: Effects of gender and sexually relevant attitudes
Deconstructing The Myth Of The Nonaggressive Woman: A Feminist Analysis
One of the most pervasive and undisputed gender stereotypes is that men are more aggressive than women. However, this stereotype has, until recently, led researchers to conclude that women are nonaggressive and, therefore, to ignore the topic of female aggression as a distinct phenomenon. The basis of the myth, factors supporting its maintenance, and theories of female aggression are examined. A feminist reinterpretation of aggression that views …
Complaints and complaining: Functions, antecedents, and consequences
Although everyone complains at least occasionally, surprisingly little research attention has been devoted to the topic of complaining. In this review, complaints are defined as expressions of dissatisfaction, whether subjectively experienced or not, for the purpose of venting emotions or achieving intrapsychic goals, interpersonal goals, or both. A theoretical model of complaining is presented that examines the relationship between self-focus, t…
Personality Moderators of Reactions to Interpersonal Rejection: Depression and Trait Self-Esteem
Two experiments were conducted to examine the moderating effects of depression and trait self-esteem on reactions to social exclusion. Participants received information indicating that they had been included in or excluded from a laboratory group and that their inclusion or exclusion was based either on the other group members' preferences or on a random procedure. Participants who scored high in depression (Experiment 1) and low in self-esteem (…
“I was Only Kidding!”: Victims’ and Perpetrators’ Perceptions of Teasing
Teasing is an interpersonal behavior that some people perceive to be fun and a matter of joking around and that other people view as cruel and a means of hurting someone’s feelings. These perspectives might reflect the views of perpetrators and victims, respectively. To examine this, 72 male and female participants wrote two narratives, one in which they described an incident when they were teased and another in which they described an event wher…
Behaving Badly: Aversive Behaviors in Interpersonal Relationships
Examines the dark side of relating, an inevitable part of interacting with others. How is it that we need others so much, indeed rely on them for our survival and well-being, yet often find it so difficult to maintain satisfying relationships? How can the loved one who raises your spirits by leaving flowers for you one day be the same individual who the next day acts like an insensitive jerk? Relationships provide us with meaning and psychologica…
The Social Stigma of Menstruation: Fact or Fiction
In a study examining the effects of a social stigma on impression management concerns, 28 menstruating and 30 nonmenstruating women were interviewed by a male confederate who either was or was not aware of their menstrual condition. Relative to menstruating women who thought the interviewer was unaware of their menstrual condition, menstruating women who believed that the interviewer knew they were menstruating perceived that the interviewer like…
Teasing, rejection, and violence: Case studies of the school shootings
Media commentators have suggested that recent school shootings were precipitated by social rejection, but no empirical research has examined this claim. Case studies were conducted of 15 school shootings between 1995 and 2001 to examine the possible role of social rejection in school violence. Acute or chronic rejection—in the form of ostracism, bullying, and/or romantic rejection—was present in all but two of the incidents. In addition, the shoo…
Lying, Cheating, Complaining, and Other Aversive Interpersonal Behaviors: A Narrative Examination of the Darker Side of Relationships
People do a lot of mean and nasty things to one another. Collectively, these behaviors are referred to as aversive interpersonal behaviors. To examine the structural elements of different aversive interpersonal behaviors and individual differences in perceptions of those behaviors, 96 male and 149 female students each wrote a victim narrative and a perpetrator narrative about one of seven aversive behaviors: betrayal, lying, improprieties, teasin…
Electronic Bullying Among Middle School Students
Students’ Perspectives on Cyber Bullying
Cyber Bullying: The New Moral Frontier
Psychology
Traditional bullying as a potential warning sign of cyberbullying
Although traditional bullying and cyberbullying share features in common, they differ in important ways. For example, cyberbullying is often characterized by perceived anonymity and can occur any time of the day or night. Conversely, perpetrators of traditional bullying are known to the victim, and most traditional bullying occurs at school. Yet, some researchers have suggested that involvement in the two types of bullying may be related. However…
Aversive Interpersonal Behaviors
Psychological, Physical, and Academic Correlates of Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying
PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between children's and adolescents' experiences with cyberbullying and traditional bullying and psychological health, physical health, and academic performance. METHODS: Nine hundred thirty-one students in grades 6 through 12 completed an anonymous survey examining their experiences with cyberbullying and traditional bullying. Also included were measures of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, physical well-being…
Bullying in the digital age: A critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying Via Social Media
Recent years have witnessed a surge of research on cyberbullying. In this article, three studies examined prevalence rates of cyberbullying among college-age students, venues through which cyberbullying occurs, with a particular focus on social media, and perceptions of cyberbullying as a function of features of the target (e.g., peer, celebrity, groups). Study 1 found texting and social media to be the most commonly used venues for cyberbullying…
Complaining, Teasing, and Other Annoying Behaviors
Everyone has teased, nagged, betrayed, or lied to another person. Likewise, everyone has been the unfortunate object of such unpleasant behaviors. In this intriguing book, social psychologist Robin M. Kowalski examines the intricacies of six annoying interpersonal behaviors: complaining, teasing, breaches of propriety, worry and reassurance-seeking, lying, and betrayal. She considers the functions of these behaviors, the types of people who are i…
Cyberbullying among Youth with and without Disabilities
Psychology (39 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (18 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Poison control (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (10 works)