Kevin Koban
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Koban |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Koban |
| SIGNATURE | KOBAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9275-9270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Annotation in Action: Experimental Perspectives on Perceiving and Labeling Digital Hate Across Four European Countries
Digital hate annotation constitutes an important task for training automatic classification algorithms that are robust across country contexts yet also sensitive to their unique conditions. However, perceptual heterogeneity in how hateful content is evaluated introduces a great challenge for consistent rating and labeling, as interpretations of norm violations are shaped by individual and contextual factors. In this study, we conduct a 2 (uncivil…
Profiling Digital Hate: A Multidimensional Measurement Approach Based on the Perspective API
The automatic classification of digital hate is a pressing challenge, yet many existing computational models remain opaque and insufficiently evaluated as measurement tools in social science contexts. This study examines the utility of Google’s Perspective API as a measurement instrument by modeling higher-order constructs of harmful discourse (i.e., incivility and intolerance) as outcomes of multiple lower-level behavioral indicators captured by…
Over-Time Relationships of Direct and Indirect Digital Hate Victimization on Fundamental Needs and Prosocial Bystander Intervention: A Two-Wave Panel Study
This study examines the impact of direct and indirect digital hate victimization on fundamental human needs (belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence) and bystander intervention tendencies. Drawing on a two-wave panel survey conducted in Austria with participants aged 16 years and older, the study applies the temporal need-threat model (TNTM) to assess these relationships over time. Findings indicate that direct digital victimiza…
Fantastic Bystanders and Where to Find Them: Do Emotions Fuel (In)Direct Interventions When Bystanders Face Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hostility on Social Media
The State of Evidence in Digital Hate Research: An Umbrella Review
Digital hate poses a threat to citizens, communities, and societies. Despite numerous studies and reviews on the concept of digital hate, we lack a systematic view of the entire body of scholarship. The aim of this umbrella review is therefore to evaluate the scope, definitions, main findings, and identified gaps of digital hate research. An umbrella review allows one to examine, compare, and evaluate the state of the research across all availabl…
Same Same But (Very) Different? A Mixed-Method Approach on Security-Related News Consumption on Traditional and Social Media and Its Relation to Negative Emotional Responses and Feelings of (In)Securi…
Nudging against judging? Mitigating anti-LGBTQIA + online hostility by raising bystanders’ awareness and behavioral intentions
All Roads Lead to Hate? Examining Five Prediction Paths for Online Incivility and Intolerance Perpetration
This two-wave panel survey puts five pathways (i.e., antisocial and prosocial personality, intergroup identity conflict, recent victimization experiences, social media habits) against each other to test their unique over-time relationship with digital hate perpetration. Using autoregressive structural equation modeling, psychopathy, need for social approval, and recent victimization emerged as universally relevant for both incivility and intolera…
Tell me more: Longitudinal relationships between online self-disclosure, co-rumination, and psychological well-being
Discursive consequences of social media hostility: Chilling effects, avoidance, and intervention behaviors of emerging adults in the U.S. and Indonesia
There is mounting evidence that social media platforms facilitate the dissemination of hostility, potentially yielding detrimental effects on the discursive space. Exposure to such hostilities can be particularly problematic for emerging adults, given this age group's high sensitivity to social validation. Our study investigated how exposure to social media hostility can shape emerging adults' willingness to engage in or avoid social media discus…
A narrow gateway from misogyny to the far right: Empirical evidence for social media exposure effects
Misogynist content is part of everyday social media use, exposing targets to great harm and normalizing problematic beliefs. Traditional gender hierarchies connect with far-right ideology, expressed intensely in online communities of the manosphere and the alt-right. Scholars have argued that this connection between hateful ideologies could work as a gateway from misogyny to further extremism. Building on these arguments, we provide empirical evi…
Platform-led content moderation through the bystander lens: A systematic scoping review
With growing pervasiveness of social media, content moderation has become a subject of interest for stakeholders. Bystanders, defined as ‘neutral’ users who witness inappropriate content without being directly involved, play a crucial role in determining the acceptance and long-term sustainability of platform-led moderation. Despite their importance, our understanding of bystanders’ multifaceted experience when witnessing moderation requires a co…
Not so ephemeral after all: Longitudinal associations between emerging adults' engagement with ephemeral social media features, production stress, and social capital
Many social media platforms have introduced ephemeral features in recent years, which either limit how often content can be viewed (e.g., Snaps on Snapchat) or how long it remains accessible (e.g., Stories on Instagram). Despite its popularity, costs and benefits of ephemeral feature engagement for (young people’s) psychological and social well-being are unclear. Such features may provide benefits like resource-efficient means to cultivate bondin…
Listen to Me! Target Perceptions of Digital Hate: A Scoping Review of Recent Research
Digital hate is typically targeted toward individuals or groups based on distinct attributes. Despite numerous studies on targets of digital hate, there is a lack of a systematic meta-perspective on targets’ perceptions of digital hate. Therefore, this scoping review aims to assess available definitions and characteristics of targets, consequences of digital hate together with targets’ reactions and coping strategies, dominant methodologies, and …
When Digital Connectivity Drivers Meet Digital Disconnection: A Cross-Country Study on Smartphone Checking, Digital Disconnection Strategies, and Digital Stress
In today's digitized societies, where constant connectivity is perceived as a social norm, many people voluntarily seek temporary digital disconnection to balance out benefits and harms. Given that any direct effectiveness of digital disconnection is limited, recent approaches emphasized its conditionality. Conducted in two culturally dissimilar countries (the United States and Indonesia), the present large-scale cross-sectional youth surveys ( N…
Misreading uncivil and intolerant anti-immigration content in digital spheres: The role of recent online perpetration
Online hostility has become increasingly common in digital public spaces, often to the detriment of marginalized groups. While prior research distinguishes between incivility and intolerance, little is known about whether users can recognize these forms as conceptually distinct. Moreover, the roles of prior digital hate perpetration and national context in shaping such perceptions remain unclear. This cross-national survey ( N = 4041; Austria, Fr…
Digital She-nanigans: Social media users’ response toward online hostilities targeting a female science communicator with marginalized identities
Online hostility poses a growing societal challenge, yet quantitative evidence on how social media users respond to different kinds of hostility targeting different identities is limited, even though insights into bystander perceptions are detrimental to combat the online hate endemic. This online experiment ( N = 461) examines cognitive (perceived acceptability), affective (negative emotions), and behavioral (intervention intentions) responses t…
Immigration-related socio-cognitive dynamics driving digital hate: A four-country study on online incivility and intolerance perpetration
Amid crises, immigration-related digital hate is rising. When perpetrators attempt to rationalize their actions, various socio-cognitive dynamics activate. We theorize that immigration-related moral disengagement serves as the key mechanism between perceived immigration threats and digital hate perpetration (i.e., online incivility and intolerance). Also, we argue that constant victimization perceptions amplify this process. Using cross-sectional…
Too much of what? Two-wave panel evidence for selective (de-)sensitization through frequent exposure to different kinds of digital hate
Digital hate has become an inevitable aspect of daily life for social media users, constituting a formidable societal challenge. Despite broad consensus of related harms, researchers have struggled to predict users’ intervening activity and moderation preferences, especially given that they are subject to temporal changes. A two-wave panel survey was conducted to investigate how exposure frequency to incivility, intolerance, and threats is associ…
The WWW of digital hate perpetration: What, who, and why? A scoping review
Fueled by the growing presence of information and communication technologies, digital hate (DH) perpetration poses significant threats. Although a substantial body of research addresses DH perpetration, existing literature lacks conceptual clarity as numerous, somewhat vaguely distinguishable phenomena are being investigated in parallel. This scoping review organizes extant findings concerning personal, social, and environmental factors related t…
It feels, therefore it is: Associations between mind perception and mind ascription for social robots
As social robots are increasingly designed with sophisticated simulations of human skills, it becomes essential to understand boundary conditions of people's engagement of them as mindful actors. The present paper reports a comprehensive secondary analysis of six studies (total N = 967) on the relationship between mind perception (evaluation of mental capacities) and mind ascription (explicit assignment of a mind-having status) when people consid…
Think Once, Think Again: Exploring the Harm-Made Mind Effect Through Dual-Process Theory
This paper presents results from a pre-registered online experiment ( N = 317) on the harm-made mind phenomenon (i.e., people’s tendency to perceive mind in seemingly mindless agents, such as robots, when they are harmed). To address inconsistent findings on this phenomenon, we study the harm-made mind through a dual-processing perspective. We propose that the harm-made mind of a robot is (a) positively mediated by perceived capacity for pain and…
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review
A high percentage of current news media covers topics relevant to the public such as wars, crime, and terrorist attacks, making threat perceptions and fears in public spaces (TPF-PS) more salient. Due to the unique challenges involved with current media landscapes, research examining how news consumption (NC) is related TPF-PS is still attracting scholarly interest. Therefore, we conducted a scoping review of N = 72 empirical studies since the ad…
Reflective smartphone disengagement as a coping strategy against cyberbullying: A cross-country study with emerging adults from the United States and Indonesia
Cyberbullying is a highly prevalent phenomenon among emerging adults, and it may lead to severe psychosocial harm for some targets. Understanding how emerging adults can cope with cyberbullying by altering their media use but without risking one of their crucial social lifelines, mobile social media, during the process is essential. To this end, this study examines a stress-coping process that involves cyberbullying as a stressor and reflective s…
Avoiding the Abject and Seeking the Script: Perceived Mind, Morality, and Trust in a Persuasive Social Robot
Social robots are being groomed for human influence, including the implicit and explicit persuasion of humans. Humanlike characteristics are understood to enhance robots’ persuasive impact; however, little is known of how perceptions of two key human capacities—mind and morality—function in robots’ persuasive potential. This experiment tests the possibility that perceived robot mind and morality will correspond with greater persuasive impact, mod…
You are not alone: Smartphone use, friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the Covid-19 crisis
Due to 'stay-at-home' measures, individuals increasingly relied on smartphones for social connection and for obtaining information about the COVID-19 pandemic. In a two-wave panel survey ( N Time2 = 416), we investigated associations between different types of smartphone use (i.e., communicative and non-communicative), friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the first lockdown in Austria. Our findings revealed that communicative smartphone us…
Too much of what? Two-wave panel evidence for selective (de-)sensitization through frequent exposure to different kinds of digital hate
Digital hate has become an inevitable aspect of daily life for social media users, constituting a formidable societal challenge. Despite broad consensus of related harms, researchers have struggled to predict users’ intervening activity and moderation preferences, especially given that they are subject to temporal changes. A two-wave panel survey was conducted to investigate how exposure frequency to incivility, intolerance, and threats is associ…
A tale of two concepts: Differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality
Given how strongly social media is permeating young people’s everyday lives, many of them have formed strong habits that, under specific circumstances, can spiral out of control and bring harmful experiences. Unlike in extant literature where habitual and compulsive behaviors are often conflated, we report findings from a two-wave panel study examining the individual predictive value of both habitual and compulsive social media use on connection …
A Kind Apart: The Limited Application of Human Race and Sex Stereotypes to a Humanoid Social Robot
Seeing characters in a different light: Psychological consequences of actor–character mismatches for viewers’ involvement in fictitious characters
Forms and Frames: Mind, Morality, and Trust in Robots across Prototypical Interactions
People often engage human-interaction schemas in human-robot interactions, so notions of prototypicality are useful in examining how interactions’ formal features shape perceptions of social robots. We argue for a typology of three higher-order interaction forms (social, task, play) comprising identifiable-but-variable patterns in agents, content, structures, outcomes, context, norms. From that ground, we examined whether participants’ judgments …
Of robots and robotkind: Extending intergroup contact theory to social machines
This study seeks to advance how intergroup dynamics can help us better understand the relations between humans and robots. Intergroup contact theory states that negative feelings toward an outgroup can be reduced through controlled intergroup contact. This study tests this theory by having study participants interact with either a human (member of the ingroup) or large humanoid robot (member of an outgroup) and measuring changes in social distanc…
You are not alone: Smartphone use, friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the Covid-19 crisis
Due to 'stay-at-home' measures, individuals increasingly relied on smartphones for social connection and for obtaining information about the COVID-19 pandemic. In a two-wave panel survey ( N Time2 = 416), we investigated associations between different types of smartphone use (i.e., communicative and non-communicative), friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the first lockdown in Austria. Our findings revealed that communicative smartphone us…
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment
The Covid-19 infodemic at your fingertips. Reciprocal relationships between Covid-19 information Fomo, bedtime smartphone news engagement, and daytime tiredness over time
Considering that insufficient sleep has long been regarded as a significant public health challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic and its co-evolving infodemic have further aggravated many people's sleep health. People's engagement with pandemic-related news, particularly given that many people are now permanently online via smartphones, has been identified as a critical factor for sleep health, such that public health authorities have recommended limit…
Compensatory video gaming. Gaming behaviours and adverse outcomes and the moderating role of stress, social interaction anxiety, and loneliness
Based on the general assumption that even problematic behaviours are associated with an inherently health-promoting motivation to cope with unpleasant or unsatisfying life situations, the compensatory model of media use focuses on how psychosocial vulnerabilities moderate links between media behaviours and adverse outcomes. The present paper means to further develop this approach by exploring the moderating role of state- and trait-level factors …
A Kind Apart: The Limited Application of Human Race and Sex Stereotypes to a Humanoid Social Robot
Avoiding the Abject and Seeking the Script: Perceived Mind, Morality, and Trust in a Persuasive Social Robot
Social robots are being groomed for human influence, including the implicit and explicit persuasion of humans. Humanlike characteristics are understood to enhance robots’ persuasive impact; however, little is known of how perceptions of two key human capacities—mind and morality—function in robots’ persuasive potential. This experiment tests the possibility that perceived robot mind and morality will correspond with greater persuasive impact, mod…
Fear of Missing Out, Reflective Smartphone Disengagement, and Loneliness in Late Adolescents
Reflective smartphone disengagement (i.e., deliberate actions to self-regulate when and how one should use one's smartphone) has become a necessary skill in our ever-connected lives, contributing to a healthy balance of related benefits and harms. However, disengaging from one's smartphone might compete with impulsive psychosocial motivators such as fear of missing out (FoMO) on others' rewarding experiences or feelings of loneliness. To shed lig…
Short-sighted ghosts. Psychological antecedents and consequences of ghosting others within emerging adults’ romantic relationships and friendships
Ghosting (i.e., terminating communication with another person on social media without explanation) has become an all-too-common occurrence. Prior scholarship has predominantly focused on adverse effects of being ghosted on individuals’ well-being and mainly investigated the phenomenon within romantic relationships. By contrast, its occurrence within friendships as well as psychological predictors and effects of ghosting others over time with rega…
A tale of two concepts: Differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality
Given how strongly social media is permeating young people’s everyday lives, many of them have formed strong habits that, under specific circumstances, can spiral out of control and bring harmful experiences. Unlike in extant literature where habitual and compulsive behaviors are often conflated, we report findings from a two-wave panel study examining the individual predictive value of both habitual and compulsive social media use on connection …
The WWW of digital hate perpetration: What, who, and why? A scoping review
Fueled by the growing presence of information and communication technologies, digital hate (DH) perpetration poses significant threats. Although a substantial body of research addresses DH perpetration, existing literature lacks conceptual clarity as numerous, somewhat vaguely distinguishable phenomena are being investigated in parallel. This scoping review organizes extant findings concerning personal, social, and environmental factors related t…
It feels, therefore it is: Associations between mind perception and mind ascription for social robots
As social robots are increasingly designed with sophisticated simulations of human skills, it becomes essential to understand boundary conditions of people's engagement of them as mindful actors. The present paper reports a comprehensive secondary analysis of six studies (total N = 967) on the relationship between mind perception (evaluation of mental capacities) and mind ascription (explicit assignment of a mind-having status) when people consid…
Think Once, Think Again: Exploring the Harm-Made Mind Effect Through Dual-Process Theory
This paper presents results from a pre-registered online experiment ( N = 317) on the harm-made mind phenomenon (i.e., people’s tendency to perceive mind in seemingly mindless agents, such as robots, when they are harmed). To address inconsistent findings on this phenomenon, we study the harm-made mind through a dual-processing perspective. We propose that the harm-made mind of a robot is (a) positively mediated by perceived capacity for pain and…
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review
A high percentage of current news media covers topics relevant to the public such as wars, crime, and terrorist attacks, making threat perceptions and fears in public spaces (TPF-PS) more salient. Due to the unique challenges involved with current media landscapes, research examining how news consumption (NC) is related TPF-PS is still attracting scholarly interest. Therefore, we conducted a scoping review of N = 72 empirical studies since the ad…
Reflective smartphone disengagement as a coping strategy against cyberbullying: A cross-country study with emerging adults from the United States and Indonesia
Cyberbullying is a highly prevalent phenomenon among emerging adults, and it may lead to severe psychosocial harm for some targets. Understanding how emerging adults can cope with cyberbullying by altering their media use but without risking one of their crucial social lifelines, mobile social media, during the process is essential. To this end, this study examines a stress-coping process that involves cyberbullying as a stressor and reflective s…
Tell me more: Longitudinal relationships between online self-disclosure, co-rumination, and psychological well-being
Discursive consequences of social media hostility: Chilling effects, avoidance, and intervention behaviors of emerging adults in the U.S. and Indonesia
There is mounting evidence that social media platforms facilitate the dissemination of hostility, potentially yielding detrimental effects on the discursive space. Exposure to such hostilities can be particularly problematic for emerging adults, given this age group's high sensitivity to social validation. Our study investigated how exposure to social media hostility can shape emerging adults' willingness to engage in or avoid social media discus…
A narrow gateway from misogyny to the far right: Empirical evidence for social media exposure effects
Misogynist content is part of everyday social media use, exposing targets to great harm and normalizing problematic beliefs. Traditional gender hierarchies connect with far-right ideology, expressed intensely in online communities of the manosphere and the alt-right. Scholars have argued that this connection between hateful ideologies could work as a gateway from misogyny to further extremism. Building on these arguments, we provide empirical evi…
Platform-led content moderation through the bystander lens: A systematic scoping review
With growing pervasiveness of social media, content moderation has become a subject of interest for stakeholders. Bystanders, defined as ‘neutral’ users who witness inappropriate content without being directly involved, play a crucial role in determining the acceptance and long-term sustainability of platform-led moderation. Despite their importance, our understanding of bystanders’ multifaceted experience when witnessing moderation requires a co…
Not so ephemeral after all: Longitudinal associations between emerging adults' engagement with ephemeral social media features, production stress, and social capital
Many social media platforms have introduced ephemeral features in recent years, which either limit how often content can be viewed (e.g., Snaps on Snapchat) or how long it remains accessible (e.g., Stories on Instagram). Despite its popularity, costs and benefits of ephemeral feature engagement for (young people’s) psychological and social well-being are unclear. Such features may provide benefits like resource-efficient means to cultivate bondin…
Listen to Me! Target Perceptions of Digital Hate: A Scoping Review of Recent Research
Digital hate is typically targeted toward individuals or groups based on distinct attributes. Despite numerous studies on targets of digital hate, there is a lack of a systematic meta-perspective on targets’ perceptions of digital hate. Therefore, this scoping review aims to assess available definitions and characteristics of targets, consequences of digital hate together with targets’ reactions and coping strategies, dominant methodologies, and …
When Digital Connectivity Drivers Meet Digital Disconnection: A Cross-Country Study on Smartphone Checking, Digital Disconnection Strategies, and Digital Stress
In today's digitized societies, where constant connectivity is perceived as a social norm, many people voluntarily seek temporary digital disconnection to balance out benefits and harms. Given that any direct effectiveness of digital disconnection is limited, recent approaches emphasized its conditionality. Conducted in two culturally dissimilar countries (the United States and Indonesia), the present large-scale cross-sectional youth surveys ( N…
Misreading uncivil and intolerant anti-immigration content in digital spheres: The role of recent online perpetration
Online hostility has become increasingly common in digital public spaces, often to the detriment of marginalized groups. While prior research distinguishes between incivility and intolerance, little is known about whether users can recognize these forms as conceptually distinct. Moreover, the roles of prior digital hate perpetration and national context in shaping such perceptions remain unclear. This cross-national survey ( N = 4041; Austria, Fr…
Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (14 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (12 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (11 works) · Social media (10 works) · Perception (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Media Influence and Health (7 works)