Raian Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3925515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raian Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamad bin Khalifa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5285-7829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How do people typically respond to social exclusion on social media? Clustering and personas from UK and Arab samples
Social media can foster community but also enable harmful interactions that violate Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) values. This study explores how individuals respond to such violations by examining four strategies: resistance (challenging the offender), internalization (self-blame), education/advocacy (raising awareness), and detachment (withdrawing). We investigated how these strategies relate to users’ sense of inclusion/exclusion…
Designing AI to foster acceptance: Do freedom to choose and social proof impact AI attitudes among British and Arab populations
This study examines the impact of two key AI modalities – freedom of choice (FoC) and social proof (SP) – on public attitudes toward AI, focusing on cultural differences between UK and Arab participants. FoC refers to the option of selecting a non-AI, possibly human, alternative, while SP means knowing that others have used AI without issues. Four scenarios were designed, combining the presence or absence of these modalities. The context was a cu…
Big tech, the state, or you? Who is responsible for generative AI addiction
The rise of generative AI introduces significant social and ethical challenges, notably the potential for addiction, mirroring problematic social media and gaming use. Preliminary evidence suggests harmful addictive properties that may lead to individual, social, and societal harms. This article addresses the research questions: Who or what can be held responsible for generative AI addiction, and what consequences can arise from the resulting res…
Challenging others when posting misinformation: A UK vs. Arab cross-cultural comparison on the perception of negative consequences and injunctive norms
This study investigates the factors influencing the willingness to challenge misinformation on social media across two cultural contexts, the United Kingdom (UK) and Arab countries. A total of 462 participants completed an online survey (250 UK, 212 Arabs). The analysis revealed that three types of negative consequences (relationship cost, negative impact on the person being challenged, futility) and also injunctive norms influence the willingnes…
Who lets AI take over? Cross-national variation in willingness to delegate socially important roles to artificial intelligence
Delegating socially significant roles to artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging reality, yet little is known about how publics evaluate this transfer of responsibility across contexts and countries. This study applied a structural model to a large cross-national dataset (30,994 individuals in 35 countries) to test how cognitive appraisals, affective dispositions, and contextual factors jointly shape willingness to delegate socially important…
Do emotions matter in AI? The mediating role of emotional response between perceived risk and trust
Research shows that trust in AI is influenced by socio-ethical considerations, technical features of AI systems, and user characteristics. Yet, the mediating role of emotional response between perceived risk and trust remains underexplored, particularly across different AI contexts. This cross-sectional vignette experiment design aims to explore the relationship between users’ perceived potential risk, emotional response, and trust in AI, and exa…
Associations between emotional and attentional problem characteristics and problematic internet use patterns: A prospective cohort study
While most people use the Internet in a balanced and responsible way, some individuals develop problematic internet behaviour that can have severe, harmful consequences. This type of behaviour is strongly linked to attentional and emotional problems. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between problematic internet use patterns, and attentional and emotional problems. The present study was based on the Northern Finland…
Do near-bedtime usage of smartphones and problematic internet usage really impact sleep? A study based on objectively recorded usage data
Objective: Existing research reporting an association between smartphone usage and sleep quality has often utilised subjective self-reported smartphone usage and sleep data.This paper aims to study the associations of objectively collected smartphone near-bedtime usage and problematic internet usage (PIU) with parameters of sleep quality.Methods: The dataset had 269 (55% Female, 55.13% Adults) participants.From the acquired usage data, the daily …
From parents to their adolescent children: Reexamining the link between parental and adolescent internet addiction
This study explores the complex relationship between parental behaviours and adolescent problematic internet use (PIU), contributing to a growing understanding of how family dynamics influence digital habits in children. Using a sample of 236 Arab parents, we investigated the impact of parental PIU, the frequency of parental monitoring, and serious arguments about internet use on adolescent PIU. The findings demonstrated significant associations …
School pressure and academic performance versus internet addiction in early and middle adolescents: The mediating role of family relationship
Recent studies have found a connection between schooling factors and Internet addiction (IA) among adolescents. However, family relationships may be a critical variable for understanding the link between school factors and IA. This study aims to investigate the association between schooling factors of academic performance and school pressure and IA in adolescents while examining the potential mediating role of family relationships in this associa…
On the relevance of Maslow's need theory in the age of artificial intelligence
The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being felt in societies worldwide and is increasingly affecting all aspects of our daily lives. This paper discusses how AI can foster or hinder human well-being. In detail, we adopt Maslow's classic theory on human needs to take a human-centered focus and discuss how this theory can guide the creation and governance of AI systems promoting human well-being. In addition, the present work explores the …
Affective neuroscience theory and attitudes towards artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence represents a key technology being inbuilt into evermore products. Research investigating attitudes towards artificial intelligence surprisingly is still scarce, although it becomes apparent that artificial intelligence will shape societies around the globe. To better understand individual differences in attitudes towards artificial intelligence, the present study investigated in n = 351 participants associations between th…
On the need to develop nuanced measures assessing attitudes towards AI and AI literacy in representative large-scale samples
Since the launch of the generative AI, including tools such as ChatGPT, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on societies has been extensively discussed. How far reaching will the impact of AI be? On the positive side, AI might help find solutions for the world’s problems, such as tackling issues around climate change or the development of new psychopharmaceuticals to enhance global mental health. However, AI, as a technology that leads to …
It Is Not Only the Child! Exploring the Nexus of Adolescents’ Internet Addiction With Family Environment in Internet‐Addicted Versus Nonaddicted Parents
This study examines the nexus between internet addiction (IA) in parents and their adolescent children, with a particular focus on the influence of the family environment. While previous research has largely investigated IA in either adults or adolescents, relatively few studies have explored IA within a familial context. However, none has specifically addressed the distinction between internet‐addicted and nonaddicted parents. To bridge this gap…
Emerging Impact of Parental Internet Addiction on Adolescent Internet Use: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective
The escalating global concern about internet addiction (IA) in adolescents has driven the necessity to investigate its predictors and their potential effects on youth development. We used a novel methodological approach to facilitate this research and assessed IA in parents and adolescents across five countries—GCC countries, Greece, Italy, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. A total of 1530 participants completed surveys evaluating parental IA, moni…
Motivated by Design: A Codesign Study to Promote Challenging Misinformation on Social Media
The spread of misinformation on social media is a critical issue. One potential solution to mitigate the spread is user corrections; however, users often refrain due to various concerns. Leveraging the established influence of user interface design (UID) on how user interact with and respond to misinformation, this study investigates how user interface features can be designed to motivate users to challenge misinformation. It is aimed at gaining …
Designing social media to foster user engagement in challenging misinformation: A cross-cultural comparison between the UK and Arab countries
Challenging others who post misinformation is a type of social correction that complements algorithm-based approaches. However, participation rates in such social acts remain limited. In this paper, we study design techniques that leverage principles of persuasive system design and communication theories to foster such prosocial behaviour across two distinct cultural contexts: the British and the Arab. A total of 462 participants completed an onl…
Depression, stress, and anxiety versus internet addiction in early and middle adolescent groups: The mediating roles of family and school environments
These results highlight the crucial role parents and schools play in addressing problematic technology usage that develops as a response to depression, anxiety, and stress among adolescents. Moreover, the study reveals nuances in the mediating role of family and school environment in early and middle adolescence. This highlights the evolving nature of these influences across the different stages of development. Notably, this study contributes to …
Why do we not stand up to misinformation? Factors influencing the likelihood of challenging misinformation on social media and the role of demographics
This study investigates the barriers to challenging others who post misinformation on social media platforms. We conducted a survey amongst U.K. Facebook users (143 (57.2 %) women, 104 (41.6 %) men) to assess the extent to which the barriers to correcting others, as identified in literature across disciplines, apply to correcting misinformation on social media. We also group the barriers into factors and explore demographic differences amongst th…
How the different explanation classes impact trust calibration: The case of clinical decision support systems
Machine learning has made rapid advances in safety-critical applications, such as traffic control, finance, and healthcare. With the criticality of decisions they support and the potential consequences of following their recommendations, it also became critical to provide users with explanations to interpret machine learning models in general, and black-box models in particular. However, despite the agreement on explainability as a necessity, the…
On the association between personality, fear of missing out (FoMO) and problematic social media use tendencies in European and Arabian samples
Recent meta-analytical evidence indicates a mild association between higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness scores and a tendency towards problematic social media use (PSMU). However, fear of missing out (FoMO) has emerged as a critical variable in understanding the positive link between neuroticism and PSMU. Given the replication crisis in psychology, this study aimed to reinvestigate personality-PSMU associations and, crucially, the les…
Loneliness, life satisfaction, problematic internet use and security behaviours: Re-examining the relationships when working from home during Covid-19
Working remotely from home within lockdown conditions can have implications on wellbeing and how people perceive and interact with technology to coordinate, communicate and collaborate with others. Previous research has shown relationships amongst life satisfaction, loneliness and problematic internet use and, also, between the latter and cyber security behaviours. We re-examine these relationships during the UK COVID-19 lockdown through an onlin…
The Relationships between Gender, Life Satisfaction, Loneliness and Problematic Internet Use during Covid-19: Does the Lockdown Matter
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have attempted to reduce virus transmission by implementing lockdown procedures, leading to increased social isolation and a new reliance on technology and the internet for work and social communication. We examined people's experiences working from home in the UK to identify risk factors of problematic internet use during the first lockdown period, specifically looking at life satisfaction, …
The interplay between adolescents’ Internet addiction and family-related factors: Three common patterns
This study aimed to identify typical interactions between adolescents’ Internet addiction and family environment factors. 165 parents were surveyed about family environment and problematic Internet use for themselves and their adolescents. Three distinct clusters were identified. Cluster 1 (assertive interaction) involved non-addicted authoritative parents with adolescents at risk of addiction. These parents had occasional arguments with their ad…
Online silence: Why do people not challenge others when posting misinformation
Purpose There is a scarcity of research studies on why people remain inactive when encountering and recognising misinformation online. The main aim of this paper is to provide a groundwork for future research into why users do not challenge misinformation on digital platforms by generating hypotheses through a synthesis of pertinent literature, including organisational behaviour, communication, human-computer interaction (HCI), psychology and edu…
Why do we not stand up to misinformation? Factors influencing the likelihood of challenging misinformation on social media and the role of demographics
This study investigates the barriers to challenging others who post misinformation on social media platforms. We conducted a survey amongst U.K. Facebook users (143 (57.2 %) women, 104 (41.6 %) men) to assess the extent to which the barriers to correcting others, as identified in literature across disciplines, apply to correcting misinformation on social media. We also group the barriers into factors and explore demographic differences amongst th…
Combatting digital addiction: Current approaches and future directions
In recent years, the notion of digital addiction has become popular. Calls for solutions to combat it, especially in adolescents, are on the rise. Whilst there remains debate on the status of this phenomenon as a diagnosable mental health condition; there is a need for prevention and intervention approaches that encourage individuals to have more control over their digital usage. This narrative review examines digital addiction countermeasures pr…
Digital wellbeing tools through users lens
There is a growing recognition of excessive, compulsive, and hasty use of technology as an emerging form of problematic behavior affecting individuals' emotional, social, and occupational wellbeing. Smartphone overuse, in particular, has been linked to negative effects on users' quality of life, such as anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance and loss in productivity. One strategy to help regulate digital usage and, potentially, increase digital w…
Is it Contagious? Does Parents’ Internet Addiction Impact Their Adolescents’ Internet Addiction
Extensive research has shown various family factors such as low family cohesion, and limited parental supervision to be associated with adolescent Internet addiction (IA). There has been little discussion about the relationship between parental IA and adolescent IA. The purpose of this study was to determine whether parental IA and parental monitoring of digital technology use interpret IA in their adolescents. The current study was carried out w…
Online silence: Why do people not challenge others when posting misinformation
Purpose There is a scarcity of research studies on why people remain inactive when encountering and recognising misinformation online. The main aim of this paper is to provide a groundwork for future research into why users do not challenge misinformation on digital platforms by generating hypotheses through a synthesis of pertinent literature, including organisational behaviour, communication, human-computer interaction (HCI), psychology and edu…
Procrastination on social media: Predictors of Types, Triggers and Acceptance of Countermeasures
Procrastination refers to the voluntary delay of urgent tasks and can have several negative consequences such as stress, health issues and academic under-achievement. Several factors including personality, culture and gender have been identified as predictors of procrastination, although there are some conflicting findings within the literature. Social networking sites have been identified as a possible facilitator of procrastination, in part due…
Cope.er Method: Combating Digital Addiction via Online Peer Support Groups
Digital addiction (hereafter DA) denotes a problematic relationship with technology described by being compulsive, obsessive, impulsive and hasty. New research has identified cases where users' digital behaviour shows symptoms meeting the clinical criteria of behavioural addiction. The online peer groups approach is one of the strategies to combat addictive behaviours. Unlike other behaviours, intervention and addictive usage can be on the same m…
Problematic Attachment to Social Media: Five Behavioural Archetypes
Today, social media play an important role in people's daily lives. Many people use social media to satisfy their personal and social needs, such as enhancing self-image, acquiring self-esteem, and gaining popularity. However, when social media are used obsessively and excessively, behavioural addiction symptoms can occur, leading to negative impacts on one's life, which is defined as a problematic attachment to social media. Research suggests th…
Combating Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) on Social Media: The FoMO-R Method
Background: The fear of missing out (FoMO) on social media refers to the apprehension that online content and interactions from others are unseen and reacted to in a timely fashion. FoMO can become problematic, leading to anxiety, interrupted sleep, lack of concentration and dependence on social media to generate gratification. The literature has mainly focused on understanding the FoMO experience, factors contributing to it and its consequences.…
Digital Intervention for Problematic Smartphone Use
Smartphones have become the primary devices for accessing the online world. The potential for smartphone use to become problematic has come into increasing focus. Students and young adults have been shown to use their smartphones at high rates and may be at risk for problematic use. There is limited research evaluating interventions for problematic smartphone use. The present research aimed to develop and evaluate a digital intervention for probl…
Digital wellbeing tools through users lens
There is a growing recognition of excessive, compulsive, and hasty use of technology as an emerging form of problematic behavior affecting individuals' emotional, social, and occupational wellbeing. Smartphone overuse, in particular, has been linked to negative effects on users' quality of life, such as anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance and loss in productivity. One strategy to help regulate digital usage and, potentially, increase digital w…
Procrastination on social media: Predictors of Types, Triggers and Acceptance of Countermeasures
Procrastination refers to the voluntary delay of urgent tasks and can have several negative consequences such as stress, health issues and academic under-achievement. Several factors including personality, culture and gender have been identified as predictors of procrastination, although there are some conflicting findings within the literature. Social networking sites have been identified as a possible facilitator of procrastination, in part due…
Loneliness, life satisfaction, problematic internet use and security behaviours: Re-examining the relationships when working from home during Covid-19
Working remotely from home within lockdown conditions can have implications on wellbeing and how people perceive and interact with technology to coordinate, communicate and collaborate with others. Previous research has shown relationships amongst life satisfaction, loneliness and problematic internet use and, also, between the latter and cyber security behaviours. We re-examine these relationships during the UK COVID-19 lockdown through an onlin…
The Relationships between Gender, Life Satisfaction, Loneliness and Problematic Internet Use during Covid-19: Does the Lockdown Matter
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have attempted to reduce virus transmission by implementing lockdown procedures, leading to increased social isolation and a new reliance on technology and the internet for work and social communication. We examined people's experiences working from home in the UK to identify risk factors of problematic internet use during the first lockdown period, specifically looking at life satisfaction, …
The interplay between adolescents’ Internet addiction and family-related factors: Three common patterns
This study aimed to identify typical interactions between adolescents’ Internet addiction and family environment factors. 165 parents were surveyed about family environment and problematic Internet use for themselves and their adolescents. Three distinct clusters were identified. Cluster 1 (assertive interaction) involved non-addicted authoritative parents with adolescents at risk of addiction. These parents had occasional arguments with their ad…
Online silence: Why do people not challenge others when posting misinformation
Purpose There is a scarcity of research studies on why people remain inactive when encountering and recognising misinformation online. The main aim of this paper is to provide a groundwork for future research into why users do not challenge misinformation on digital platforms by generating hypotheses through a synthesis of pertinent literature, including organisational behaviour, communication, human-computer interaction (HCI), psychology and edu…
Is it Contagious? Does Parents’ Internet Addiction Impact Their Adolescents’ Internet Addiction
Extensive research has shown various family factors such as low family cohesion, and limited parental supervision to be associated with adolescent Internet addiction (IA). There has been little discussion about the relationship between parental IA and adolescent IA. The purpose of this study was to determine whether parental IA and parental monitoring of digital technology use interpret IA in their adolescents. The current study was carried out w…
Combatting digital addiction: Current approaches and future directions
In recent years, the notion of digital addiction has become popular. Calls for solutions to combat it, especially in adolescents, are on the rise. Whilst there remains debate on the status of this phenomenon as a diagnosable mental health condition; there is a need for prevention and intervention approaches that encourage individuals to have more control over their digital usage. This narrative review examines digital addiction countermeasures pr…
How the different explanation classes impact trust calibration: The case of clinical decision support systems
Machine learning has made rapid advances in safety-critical applications, such as traffic control, finance, and healthcare. With the criticality of decisions they support and the potential consequences of following their recommendations, it also became critical to provide users with explanations to interpret machine learning models in general, and black-box models in particular. However, despite the agreement on explainability as a necessity, the…
On the association between personality, fear of missing out (FoMO) and problematic social media use tendencies in European and Arabian samples
Recent meta-analytical evidence indicates a mild association between higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness scores and a tendency towards problematic social media use (PSMU). However, fear of missing out (FoMO) has emerged as a critical variable in understanding the positive link between neuroticism and PSMU. Given the replication crisis in psychology, this study aimed to reinvestigate personality-PSMU associations and, crucially, the les…
Motivated by Design: A Codesign Study to Promote Challenging Misinformation on Social Media
The spread of misinformation on social media is a critical issue. One potential solution to mitigate the spread is user corrections; however, users often refrain due to various concerns. Leveraging the established influence of user interface design (UID) on how user interact with and respond to misinformation, this study investigates how user interface features can be designed to motivate users to challenge misinformation. It is aimed at gaining …
Designing social media to foster user engagement in challenging misinformation: A cross-cultural comparison between the UK and Arab countries
Challenging others who post misinformation is a type of social correction that complements algorithm-based approaches. However, participation rates in such social acts remain limited. In this paper, we study design techniques that leverage principles of persuasive system design and communication theories to foster such prosocial behaviour across two distinct cultural contexts: the British and the Arab. A total of 462 participants completed an onl…
Depression, stress, and anxiety versus internet addiction in early and middle adolescent groups: The mediating roles of family and school environments
These results highlight the crucial role parents and schools play in addressing problematic technology usage that develops as a response to depression, anxiety, and stress among adolescents. Moreover, the study reveals nuances in the mediating role of family and school environment in early and middle adolescence. This highlights the evolving nature of these influences across the different stages of development. Notably, this study contributes to …
Why do we not stand up to misinformation? Factors influencing the likelihood of challenging misinformation on social media and the role of demographics
This study investigates the barriers to challenging others who post misinformation on social media platforms. We conducted a survey amongst U.K. Facebook users (143 (57.2 %) women, 104 (41.6 %) men) to assess the extent to which the barriers to correcting others, as identified in literature across disciplines, apply to correcting misinformation on social media. We also group the barriers into factors and explore demographic differences amongst th…
Associations between emotional and attentional problem characteristics and problematic internet use patterns: A prospective cohort study
While most people use the Internet in a balanced and responsible way, some individuals develop problematic internet behaviour that can have severe, harmful consequences. This type of behaviour is strongly linked to attentional and emotional problems. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between problematic internet use patterns, and attentional and emotional problems. The present study was based on the Northern Finland…
Do near-bedtime usage of smartphones and problematic internet usage really impact sleep? A study based on objectively recorded usage data
Objective: Existing research reporting an association between smartphone usage and sleep quality has often utilised subjective self-reported smartphone usage and sleep data.This paper aims to study the associations of objectively collected smartphone near-bedtime usage and problematic internet usage (PIU) with parameters of sleep quality.Methods: The dataset had 269 (55% Female, 55.13% Adults) participants.From the acquired usage data, the daily …
From parents to their adolescent children: Reexamining the link between parental and adolescent internet addiction
This study explores the complex relationship between parental behaviours and adolescent problematic internet use (PIU), contributing to a growing understanding of how family dynamics influence digital habits in children. Using a sample of 236 Arab parents, we investigated the impact of parental PIU, the frequency of parental monitoring, and serious arguments about internet use on adolescent PIU. The findings demonstrated significant associations …
School pressure and academic performance versus internet addiction in early and middle adolescents: The mediating role of family relationship
Recent studies have found a connection between schooling factors and Internet addiction (IA) among adolescents. However, family relationships may be a critical variable for understanding the link between school factors and IA. This study aims to investigate the association between schooling factors of academic performance and school pressure and IA in adolescents while examining the potential mediating role of family relationships in this associa…
On the relevance of Maslow's need theory in the age of artificial intelligence
The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being felt in societies worldwide and is increasingly affecting all aspects of our daily lives. This paper discusses how AI can foster or hinder human well-being. In detail, we adopt Maslow's classic theory on human needs to take a human-centered focus and discuss how this theory can guide the creation and governance of AI systems promoting human well-being. In addition, the present work explores the …
Affective neuroscience theory and attitudes towards artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence represents a key technology being inbuilt into evermore products. Research investigating attitudes towards artificial intelligence surprisingly is still scarce, although it becomes apparent that artificial intelligence will shape societies around the globe. To better understand individual differences in attitudes towards artificial intelligence, the present study investigated in n = 351 participants associations between th…
On the need to develop nuanced measures assessing attitudes towards AI and AI literacy in representative large-scale samples
Since the launch of the generative AI, including tools such as ChatGPT, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on societies has been extensively discussed. How far reaching will the impact of AI be? On the positive side, AI might help find solutions for the world’s problems, such as tackling issues around climate change or the development of new psychopharmaceuticals to enhance global mental health. However, AI, as a technology that leads to …
Psychology (28 works) · Computer Science (22 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (21 works) · World Wide Web (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (13 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Addiction (10 works) · The Internet (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works)