Wannes Heirman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wannes Heirman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Heirman |
| SIGNATURE | HEIRMAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8771-0600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Perceived realism in VR as a multifaceted concept
As virtual reality (VR) evolves as a narrative medium, its capacity to immerse users in realistic environments has attracted scholarly interest. This study investigates how users perceive realism in VR beyond sensory fidelity. Using 27 interviews and four focus groups with experts and non-experts (n = 77), we examine how realism in VR is conceptualized and experienced. Qualitative analysis identified 12 factors contributing to perceived realism, …
When It’s Worth the Effort
To give or not to give
Sharenting, is it a good or a bad thing? Understanding how adolescents think and feel about sharenting on social network sites
Shall I call, text, post it online or just tell it face-to-face? How and why Flemish adolescents choose to share their emotions on- or offline
Social sharing of emotions is a frequently used emotion regulation strategy. This study adds to the emotion regulation literature and the affordances of technologies perspective by providing a better understanding of with whom adolescents share emotions on- and offline, how they do this and why they use certain modes. In-depth interviews with 22 Flemish adolescents (aged 14–18) show that these youngsters share almost all experienced emotions, oft…
Sexting scripts in adolescent relationships
This study offers empirical insight into adolescents’ norms around sexting. Informed by sexual scripting theory, we investigated the extent to which young people perceive sexting as being a likely behavior in the context of a romantic relationship (the “sexting script”). A distinction is made between what adolescents find likely among same-aged peers (the general sexting script) versus what they find likely in their personal situation (the person…
A qualitative study into parental mediation of adolescents' internet use
Parental Knowledge of Adolescents’ Online Content and Contact Risks
Cyberbullying-Entrenched or Cyberbully-Free Classrooms? A Class Network and Class Composition Approach
Cyberbullying threatens young people's well-being. This study is one of the first to examine cyberbullying from a social network perspective. The class-based friendship networks of 103 classes were reconstructed using peer-nomination questionnaires. Closeness centralization and the global clustering coefficient were calculated using social network analysis and subsequently entered into a Poisson-regression. The outcomes of these analyses show tha…
Predicting adolescents’ willingness to disclose personal information to a commercial website
This study examines the relationship between the level of trust that adolescents place in a specific commercial website and their behavioural intentions to disclose four categories of personal information (identity information, geographical information, profile information and contact information) to the website. Following the integrative model of organisational trust, we hypothesise that respondents’ level of trust in a specific commercial websi…
Adolescents, Online Marketing and Privacy
The present study aims at exploring which factors predict the willingness of adolescents to disclose personal information in response to online marketing requests. Our analyses show that especially privacy concerns and perceived benefits explain a considerable portion of variance in both willingness to disclose profile data (e.g. age, hobbies, favourite products) and contact data (e.g. phone number, e‐mail address, home address). An interesting i…
Connecting and protecting? Comparing predictors of self-disclosure and privacy settings use between adolescents and adults
The present study serves two purposes. First, we explore how adolescents and adults approach the disclosure of personal information and the application of privacy settings on social network sites (SNS). Second, we investigate whether the factors that predict these two privacy-management strategies differ for adolescents and adults. To achieve the goals of this study, an online survey was conducted among a sample of 1484 SNS users ranging in age f…
Cyberbullying
Sexting scripts in adolescent relationships
This study offers empirical insight into adolescents’ norms around sexting. Informed by sexual scripting theory, we investigated the extent to which young people perceive sexting as being a likely behavior in the context of a romantic relationship (the “sexting script”). A distinction is made between what adolescents find likely among same-aged peers (the general sexting script) versus what they find likely in their personal situation (the person…
Sharenting, is it a good or a bad thing? Understanding how adolescents think and feel about sharenting on social network sites
Parental Knowledge of Adolescents’ Online Content and Contact Risks
Cyberbullying
Connecting and protecting? Comparing predictors of self-disclosure and privacy settings use between adolescents and adults
The present study serves two purposes. First, we explore how adolescents and adults approach the disclosure of personal information and the application of privacy settings on social network sites (SNS). Second, we investigate whether the factors that predict these two privacy-management strategies differ for adolescents and adults. To achieve the goals of this study, an online survey was conducted among a sample of 1484 SNS users ranging in age f…
Predicting adolescents’ willingness to disclose personal information to a commercial website
This study examines the relationship between the level of trust that adolescents place in a specific commercial website and their behavioural intentions to disclose four categories of personal information (identity information, geographical information, profile information and contact information) to the website. Following the integrative model of organisational trust, we hypothesise that respondents’ level of trust in a specific commercial websi…
Adolescents, Online Marketing and Privacy
The present study aims at exploring which factors predict the willingness of adolescents to disclose personal information in response to online marketing requests. Our analyses show that especially privacy concerns and perceived benefits explain a considerable portion of variance in both willingness to disclose profile data (e.g. age, hobbies, favourite products) and contact data (e.g. phone number, e‐mail address, home address). An interesting i…
Cyberbullying-Entrenched or Cyberbully-Free Classrooms? A Class Network and Class Composition Approach
Cyberbullying threatens young people's well-being. This study is one of the first to examine cyberbullying from a social network perspective. The class-based friendship networks of 103 classes were reconstructed using peer-nomination questionnaires. Closeness centralization and the global clustering coefficient were calculated using social network analysis and subsequently entered into a Poisson-regression. The outcomes of these analyses show tha…
A qualitative study into parental mediation of adolescents' internet use
Parental Knowledge of Adolescents’ Online Content and Contact Risks
Shall I call, text, post it online or just tell it face-to-face? How and why Flemish adolescents choose to share their emotions on- or offline
Social sharing of emotions is a frequently used emotion regulation strategy. This study adds to the emotion regulation literature and the affordances of technologies perspective by providing a better understanding of with whom adolescents share emotions on- and offline, how they do this and why they use certain modes. In-depth interviews with 22 Flemish adolescents (aged 14–18) show that these youngsters share almost all experienced emotions, oft…
Sexting scripts in adolescent relationships
This study offers empirical insight into adolescents’ norms around sexting. Informed by sexual scripting theory, we investigated the extent to which young people perceive sexting as being a likely behavior in the context of a romantic relationship (the “sexting script”). A distinction is made between what adolescents find likely among same-aged peers (the general sexting script) versus what they find likely in their personal situation (the person…
Sharenting, is it a good or a bad thing? Understanding how adolescents think and feel about sharenting on social network sites
To give or not to give
When It’s Worth the Effort
Perceived realism in VR as a multifaceted concept
As virtual reality (VR) evolves as a narrative medium, its capacity to immerse users in realistic environments has attracted scholarly interest. This study investigates how users perceive realism in VR beyond sensory fidelity. Using 27 interviews and four focus groups with experts and non-experts (n = 77), we examine how realism in VR is conceptualized and experienced. Qualitative analysis identified 12 factors contributing to perceived realism, …
Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (6 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Personally identifiable information (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)