Adam Joinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 232009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Joinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Joinson |
| SIGNATURE | JOINSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization
Psychological theories of mobilization tend to focus on explaining people’s motivations for action, rather than mobilization (“activation”) processes. To investigate the online behaviors associated with mobilization, we compared the online communications data of 26 people who subsequently mobilized to right-wing extremist action and 48 people who held similar extremist views but did not mobilize ( N = 119,473 social media posts). In a three-part …
Not All Interventions are Made Equal: Harnessing Design and Messaging to Nudge Bystander Intervention
This study examined the influence of design “nudges” on bystanders’ willingness to intervene in online harassment using a social media simulation. Utilizing a 2 × 2 experimental design, we tested the ability of key design features (community guidelines and pop-up messaging) to induce a sense of self-efficacy (low/high) and personal responsibility (low/high) and thence to influence intervention levels. Participants ( n = 206) were invited to “beta…
Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis
Internet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats. While prior research has highlighted their broad appeal as they traverse diverse audiences, their cultural function within online communities has received less attention. To investigate this function, we draw on cognitive anthropological conceptualizations of cul…
Capturing social presence: Concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures
Initially the province of telecommunication and early computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature, multiple systematic reviews suggest “social presence” is now used for an increasingly diverse set of phenomena across various communication settings. Drawing upon Chaffee’s (1991) description of concept explication as the dialectic process between the conceptual and operational aspects of research, this study provides a mixed methods analysis o…
Battle for Britain: Analyzing Events as Drivers of Political Tribalism in Twitter Discussions of Brexit
In the aftermath of the 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership, Britain was divided into identity groups (or tribes) of Leavers and Remainers. In this study, we investigate how Brexit tribalism—in the form of outgroup derogation—has unfolded over time on Twitter. We analyze data from 32 months of discussions ( n = 9,027,822), using identity‐based keywords as proxies for tribalism. First, we characterize the nature of the discussion by …
Emotional responses to likes and comments regulate posting frequency and content change behaviour on social media: An experimental study and mediation model
Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing
The present research explores the effects of imagined audiences, emotions, and feedback expectations on social media photo sharing. We focus on the audience-oriented approach to sharing and on how discrepancies between expected and received feedback might shape photo sharing behaviors. Twenty-four participants were interviewed using scenario-based semi-structured interview method. The participants were asked to develop an imagined story about two…
Social Desirability in Spouse Ratings
Whether or not socially desirable responding is a cause for concern in personality assessment has long been debated. For many researchers, McCrae and Costa laid the issue to rest when they showed that correcting for socially desirable responding in self-reports did not improve the agreement with spouse ratings on the Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience Personality Inventory. However, their findings rest on the assumption that ob…
Linguistic Style Accommodation Shapes Impression Formation and Rapport in Computer-Mediated Communication
Communication accommodation theory predicts that social power plays an important role in influencing communicative behaviors. Previous research suggests these effects extend to linguistic style, thought to be a nonconscious aspect of communication. Here, we explore if these effects hold when individuals converse using a medium limited in personal cues, computer-mediated communication. We manipulated social power in instant messaging conversations…
“What do they snapchat about?” Patterns of use in time-limited instant messaging service
Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation
Linguistic style accommodation between conversationalists is associated with positive social outcomes. We examine social power and personality as factors driving the occurrence of linguistic style accommodation, and the social outcomes of accommodation. Social power was manipulated to create 144 face-to-face dyadic interactions between individuals of high versus low power and 64 neutral power interactions. Particular configurations of personality…
Putting the social (psychology) into social media
Storming and Forming a Normative Response to a Deception Revealed Online
Reactions to an admitted charade of bogus self-presentation within an online community were examined over time for themes of support, condemnation, and interactivity. Evidence for the subjective group dynamics account of intragroup reactions to perceived deviance was observed in that support was modeled by a cubic function over time, whereas condemnation remained prominent. The community eventually expelled the deceptive member, supporting the bl…
Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation
Linguistic style accommodation between conversationalists is associated with positive social outcomes. We examine social power and personality as factors driving the occurrence of linguistic style accommodation, and the social outcomes of accommodation. Social power was manipulated to create 144 face-to-face dyadic interactions between individuals of high versus low power and 64 neutral power interactions. Particular configurations of personality…
Linguistic Style Accommodation Shapes Impression Formation and Rapport in Computer-Mediated Communication
Communication accommodation theory predicts that social power plays an important role in influencing communicative behaviors. Previous research suggests these effects extend to linguistic style, thought to be a nonconscious aspect of communication. Here, we explore if these effects hold when individuals converse using a medium limited in personal cues, computer-mediated communication. We manipulated social power in instant messaging conversations…
Storming and Forming a Normative Response to a Deception Revealed Online
Reactions to an admitted charade of bogus self-presentation within an online community were examined over time for themes of support, condemnation, and interactivity. Evidence for the subjective group dynamics account of intragroup reactions to perceived deviance was observed in that support was modeled by a cubic function over time, whereas condemnation remained prominent. The community eventually expelled the deceptive member, supporting the bl…
Capturing social presence: Concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures
Initially the province of telecommunication and early computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature, multiple systematic reviews suggest “social presence” is now used for an increasingly diverse set of phenomena across various communication settings. Drawing upon Chaffee’s (1991) description of concept explication as the dialectic process between the conceptual and operational aspects of research, this study provides a mixed methods analysis o…
Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing
The present research explores the effects of imagined audiences, emotions, and feedback expectations on social media photo sharing. We focus on the audience-oriented approach to sharing and on how discrepancies between expected and received feedback might shape photo sharing behaviors. Twenty-four participants were interviewed using scenario-based semi-structured interview method. The participants were asked to develop an imagined story about two…
Putting the social (psychology) into social media
Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis
Internet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats. While prior research has highlighted their broad appeal as they traverse diverse audiences, their cultural function within online communities has received less attention. To investigate this function, we draw on cognitive anthropological conceptualizations of cul…
Storming and Forming a Normative Response to a Deception Revealed Online
Reactions to an admitted charade of bogus self-presentation within an online community were examined over time for themes of support, condemnation, and interactivity. Evidence for the subjective group dynamics account of intragroup reactions to perceived deviance was observed in that support was modeled by a cubic function over time, whereas condemnation remained prominent. The community eventually expelled the deceptive member, supporting the bl…
Putting the social (psychology) into social media
“What do they snapchat about?” Patterns of use in time-limited instant messaging service
Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation
Linguistic style accommodation between conversationalists is associated with positive social outcomes. We examine social power and personality as factors driving the occurrence of linguistic style accommodation, and the social outcomes of accommodation. Social power was manipulated to create 144 face-to-face dyadic interactions between individuals of high versus low power and 64 neutral power interactions. Particular configurations of personality…
Linguistic Style Accommodation Shapes Impression Formation and Rapport in Computer-Mediated Communication
Communication accommodation theory predicts that social power plays an important role in influencing communicative behaviors. Previous research suggests these effects extend to linguistic style, thought to be a nonconscious aspect of communication. Here, we explore if these effects hold when individuals converse using a medium limited in personal cues, computer-mediated communication. We manipulated social power in instant messaging conversations…
Social Desirability in Spouse Ratings
Whether or not socially desirable responding is a cause for concern in personality assessment has long been debated. For many researchers, McCrae and Costa laid the issue to rest when they showed that correcting for socially desirable responding in self-reports did not improve the agreement with spouse ratings on the Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience Personality Inventory. However, their findings rest on the assumption that ob…
Battle for Britain: Analyzing Events as Drivers of Political Tribalism in Twitter Discussions of Brexit
In the aftermath of the 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership, Britain was divided into identity groups (or tribes) of Leavers and Remainers. In this study, we investigate how Brexit tribalism—in the form of outgroup derogation—has unfolded over time on Twitter. We analyze data from 32 months of discussions ( n = 9,027,822), using identity‐based keywords as proxies for tribalism. First, we characterize the nature of the discussion by …
Emotional responses to likes and comments regulate posting frequency and content change behaviour on social media: An experimental study and mediation model
Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing
The present research explores the effects of imagined audiences, emotions, and feedback expectations on social media photo sharing. We focus on the audience-oriented approach to sharing and on how discrepancies between expected and received feedback might shape photo sharing behaviors. Twenty-four participants were interviewed using scenario-based semi-structured interview method. The participants were asked to develop an imagined story about two…
Capturing social presence: Concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures
Initially the province of telecommunication and early computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature, multiple systematic reviews suggest “social presence” is now used for an increasingly diverse set of phenomena across various communication settings. Drawing upon Chaffee’s (1991) description of concept explication as the dialectic process between the conceptual and operational aspects of research, this study provides a mixed methods analysis o…
Not All Interventions are Made Equal: Harnessing Design and Messaging to Nudge Bystander Intervention
This study examined the influence of design “nudges” on bystanders’ willingness to intervene in online harassment using a social media simulation. Utilizing a 2 × 2 experimental design, we tested the ability of key design features (community guidelines and pop-up messaging) to induce a sense of self-efficacy (low/high) and personal responsibility (low/high) and thence to influence intervention levels. Participants ( n = 206) were invited to “beta…
Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis
Internet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats. While prior research has highlighted their broad appeal as they traverse diverse audiences, their cultural function within online communities has received less attention. To investigate this function, we draw on cognitive anthropological conceptualizations of cul…
Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization
Psychological theories of mobilization tend to focus on explaining people’s motivations for action, rather than mobilization (“activation”) processes. To investigate the online behaviors associated with mobilization, we compared the online communications data of 26 people who subsequently mobilized to right-wing extremist action and 48 people who held similar extremist views but did not mobilize ( N = 119,473 social media posts). In a three-part …
Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social media (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (4 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Political science (4 works)