Monica T Whitty
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 159689 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Monica T Whitty |
| PRENOMES | Monica T |
| SOBRENOME | Whitty |
| ASSINATURA | WHITTY M T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8143-289X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Enhancing mis- and disinformation detection and understanding its influence
Addressing the detection and spread of mis- and disinformation presents a complex challenge. Using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software, we examined the defining linguistic features that distinguish fake from authentic COVID-19 news. Drawing from Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Information Manipulation Theory (IMT), we analysed 70 fake and 70 true news stories. CAT proved more effective than IMT in predicting linguis…
Why a Life in Virtual Reality has the Potential to be Just as Meaningful as a Life Outside of it or, in Some Cases, More so
Using an amalgamated hybrid account of the meaningfulness of life, we argue that conditions for a life to be meaningful are achievable, in principle, by a life lived in virtual reality (VR): what we call a claim to equivalence. An implication of this is that the attributes associated with a meaningful life are not restricted to entities that are contingently biological and immersed solely in physical reality, but are also capable of being satisfi…
A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams
Background Cyber scams continue to rise worldwide, posing a significant concern due to the harm inflicted on individuals, both financially and psychologically, as well as on societies. Given that apprehending criminals is resource-intensive and challenging (as investigations require global cooperation), profiling victims is arguably more crucial than profiling criminals, starkly contrasting with other types of crimes.Methods This SLR examines var…
Language, Psychology, and New New Media
Research on the hyperpersonal model originally described how the substitution of language for nonverbal cues, necessitated by text-based computer-mediated communication systems, transforms users’ reception, self-presentation, composition, and reciprocal reinforcement of messages in ways that create socially desirable relationships online. This article reviews the model after 25 years. It explicates the original model and mentions a sample of illu…
Online Dating
The online dating romance scam
This article examines the psychological impact of the online dating romance scam. Unlike other mass-marketing fraud victims, these victims experienced a ‘double hit’ of the scam: a financial loss and the loss of a relationship. For most, the loss of the relationship was more upsetting than their financial losses (many described the loss of the relationship as a ‘death’). Some described their experience as traumatic and all were affected negativel…
The online dating romance scam
The online dating romance scam is a relatively new and under-reported international crime targeting users of online dating sites. It has serious financial and emotional consequences, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. However, little if anything is known about psychological characteristics that may put people at risk of romance scam victimization, or influence how they react to it. Online daters (N=853) and participants recruited from a v…
The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model
The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Developmentof a stage model to
Love letters
This article considers the history of dating throughout the ages, and compares how previous forms of dating might compare to the way individuals initiate and develop relationships in cyberspace. Similarities between the ways individuals in the past developed relationships using the telegraph and love letters are elucidated. Some important differences between the Internet and these spaces are also presented. While early theories on computer-mediat…
Transcending Taboos
Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it more acceptable to murder or maim than rape? After all, in each case, it is only pixels that are being assaulted. This book avoids wrestling with the common question of whether the virtual violation of real-world taboos is right or wrong, and instead provides a theoretical framework that helps us unders…
The Northeast Asian Energy Situation and the North Korean Factor
IntroductionNortheast Asia consists of China, Japan, the two Koreas, the Russian Far East, and Mongolia. The Korean Peninsula stretches southward from the northeastern section of the Asian continent and faces the islands of Japan. Korea is the country where the interests and influences of the four big global powers-China, Russia, Japan, and the United States-are closely interlocked (see Figure 1 and Table 1). The United States is not part of Nort…
Should gamespace be a taboo-free zone? Moral and psychological implications for single-player video games
When assessing the appropriateness of single-player video games, it is our contention that questions dealing with the morality of their content are the wrong sorts of questions to ask. Instead, a more informative strategy is to focus on what gamers are able to deal with psychologically, especially regarding taboo violation. Thus, we argue that there is nothing morally problematic with gamespace per se, no matter how prohibitive the actions engage…
In Search of the Cartesian Self
Cyberspace has been hailed by some as a medium through which users can experience themselves as disembodied, freed from the corporeal trappings of the “real” world. Literature proclaiming the merits of this disembodied ideal has often described the user’s existential state as a form of Cartesian disembodiment, but without (in our view) giving serious consideration to whether this label is warranted. This paper explores the extent to which alterat…
Looking for Love in so many Places
This study examined the characteristics of individuals who are more likely to engage in speed dating and online dating, and the types of people who are more likely to prefer these forms of dating. Older individuals and those who scored high on shyness were more likely to have tried online dating. Older individuals, those who scored high on shyness, and those who had tried online dating were more likely to consider using it in the future. Younger …
The Role of the Internet in Reconfiguring Marriages
This study explores the role of the Internet in reconfiguring marriages, introducing couples that meet in person and later marry, through a set of online surveys of married couples in Britain, Australia, and Spain. The study found that a sizeable proportion of online married couples in each country first met their spouse online, usually through an online dating service, chat room or on instant messaging (IM). This was more the case for young…
Revealing the ‘real’ me, searching for the ‘actual’ you
Culture, method, and the content of self-concepts
The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions
IntroductionThe phrase means restrictions on normal commercial relations with a target country, including trade, investment, and other cross-border activities. Economic sanctions are either unilateral or multilateral. A unilateral sanction is imposed by one country, such as the U.S., against another country, such as North Korea. Multilateral sanctions require the cooperation of at least two nations. The clearest examples of multilateral sanctions…
Cyberspace Romance
This book focuses on online relationships and specifically cyber-flirting; the authors examine how flirting offline can be transferred to an Internet setting, through their own empirical and theoretical research
The Realness of Cybercheating
This article considers the deviant behavior of Internet infidelity. Although a plethora of research has been conducted on offline infidelity and jealousy, to date, there has been very little written about Internet infidelity and jealousy associated with cyber-relationships. Given the potential problems that online infidelity might bring to a relationship, this area of research warrants some attention. This study drew from Kitzinger and Powell's (…
Cyber-Flirting
While there exists some research on offline flirting, there is currently little in the way of conceptual theory or empirical research on flirting in cyberspace. This paper attempts to help redress this balance. The paper initially presents a summary of the behaviour of offline flirting and particularly identifies what constitutes offline flirting signals. Given this background context, suggestions are made as to how we might better conceptualize …
Cyberspace as Potential Space
This article compares traditional offline flirting with cyber-flirting. We begin by providing a definition of offline flirting, which we follow up with our own elaboration of cyber-flirting. The article then draws from psychoanalytic theory, in particular Winnicott's object-relations theory, to propose that cyber-flirting can be a form of play. While this is not an empirical study, we do attempt to present a theoretical framework for the concepti…
Should Filtering Software be utilised in the Workplace? Australian Employees’ Attitudes towards Internet usage and Surveillance of the Internet in the Workplace
The notion of Internet and email monitoring in the workplace is a debatable issue. Some would argue that surveillance is necessary to prevent ‘cyberslacking’ which can lead to loss of productivity and be a waste of a company’s resources. In contrast, others contend that cyberspace is a private space that employers do not have the right to intercept. There is currently a dearth of available Australian baseline research available on employees’ opin…
Possible Selves
This study has two main aims: (a) to explore young men's and women's hopes and dreams for the future and (b) in so doing to explore the utility of a story-writing method. It is argued here that when identity is conceptualized as a life story, researchers need to consider story-writing methods in their investigations of identity formation. Three methods were used to compare findings from the story-telling method with more traditional methods, in t…
The Myth of the Superwoman
Past research into the hopes and dreams of individuals has focused mainly on mid-adolescence. This study investigated how dreams unfold beyond this age group by exploring: (a) the transition period from adolescence to adulthood (17 years to 22 years); and (b) the “age-thirty” transition period (28 years to 33 years). The sample (140 men and 140 women) formed two age-based groups with 140 participants in each group. The younger group were found to…
The Realness of Cybercheating
This article considers the deviant behavior of Internet infidelity. Although a plethora of research has been conducted on offline infidelity and jealousy, to date, there has been very little written about Internet infidelity and jealousy associated with cyber-relationships. Given the potential problems that online infidelity might bring to a relationship, this area of research warrants some attention. This study drew from Kitzinger and Powell's (…
The online dating romance scam
This article examines the psychological impact of the online dating romance scam. Unlike other mass-marketing fraud victims, these victims experienced a ‘double hit’ of the scam: a financial loss and the loss of a relationship. For most, the loss of the relationship was more upsetting than their financial losses (many described the loss of the relationship as a ‘death’). Some described their experience as traumatic and all were affected negativel…
The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model
The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Developmentof a stage model to
Possible Selves
This study has two main aims: (a) to explore young men's and women's hopes and dreams for the future and (b) in so doing to explore the utility of a story-writing method. It is argued here that when identity is conceptualized as a life story, researchers need to consider story-writing methods in their investigations of identity formation. Three methods were used to compare findings from the story-telling method with more traditional methods, in t…
Cyberspace as Potential Space
This article compares traditional offline flirting with cyber-flirting. We begin by providing a definition of offline flirting, which we follow up with our own elaboration of cyber-flirting. The article then draws from psychoanalytic theory, in particular Winnicott's object-relations theory, to propose that cyber-flirting can be a form of play. While this is not an empirical study, we do attempt to present a theoretical framework for the concepti…
Culture, method, and the content of self-concepts
The Myth of the Superwoman
Past research into the hopes and dreams of individuals has focused mainly on mid-adolescence. This study investigated how dreams unfold beyond this age group by exploring: (a) the transition period from adolescence to adulthood (17 years to 22 years); and (b) the “age-thirty” transition period (28 years to 33 years). The sample (140 men and 140 women) formed two age-based groups with 140 participants in each group. The younger group were found to…
Looking for Love in so many Places
This study examined the characteristics of individuals who are more likely to engage in speed dating and online dating, and the types of people who are more likely to prefer these forms of dating. Older individuals and those who scored high on shyness were more likely to have tried online dating. Older individuals, those who scored high on shyness, and those who had tried online dating were more likely to consider using it in the future. Younger …
The Role of the Internet in Reconfiguring Marriages
This study explores the role of the Internet in reconfiguring marriages, introducing couples that meet in person and later marry, through a set of online surveys of married couples in Britain, Australia, and Spain. The study found that a sizeable proportion of online married couples in each country first met their spouse online, usually through an online dating service, chat room or on instant messaging (IM). This was more the case for young…
The United Auto Workers Face Detroit's Underworld
The new unionism
The Myth of the Superwoman
Past research into the hopes and dreams of individuals has focused mainly on mid-adolescence. This study investigated how dreams unfold beyond this age group by exploring: (a) the transition period from adolescence to adulthood (17 years to 22 years); and (b) the “age-thirty” transition period (28 years to 33 years). The sample (140 men and 140 women) formed two age-based groups with 140 participants in each group. The younger group were found to…
Should Filtering Software be utilised in the Workplace? Australian Employees’ Attitudes towards Internet usage and Surveillance of the Internet in the Workplace
The notion of Internet and email monitoring in the workplace is a debatable issue. Some would argue that surveillance is necessary to prevent ‘cyberslacking’ which can lead to loss of productivity and be a waste of a company’s resources. In contrast, others contend that cyberspace is a private space that employers do not have the right to intercept. There is currently a dearth of available Australian baseline research available on employees’ opin…
Possible Selves
This study has two main aims: (a) to explore young men's and women's hopes and dreams for the future and (b) in so doing to explore the utility of a story-writing method. It is argued here that when identity is conceptualized as a life story, researchers need to consider story-writing methods in their investigations of identity formation. Three methods were used to compare findings from the story-telling method with more traditional methods, in t…
Cyber-Flirting
While there exists some research on offline flirting, there is currently little in the way of conceptual theory or empirical research on flirting in cyberspace. This paper attempts to help redress this balance. The paper initially presents a summary of the behaviour of offline flirting and particularly identifies what constitutes offline flirting signals. Given this background context, suggestions are made as to how we might better conceptualize …
Cyberspace as Potential Space
This article compares traditional offline flirting with cyber-flirting. We begin by providing a definition of offline flirting, which we follow up with our own elaboration of cyber-flirting. The article then draws from psychoanalytic theory, in particular Winnicott's object-relations theory, to propose that cyber-flirting can be a form of play. While this is not an empirical study, we do attempt to present a theoretical framework for the concepti…
The Realness of Cybercheating
This article considers the deviant behavior of Internet infidelity. Although a plethora of research has been conducted on offline infidelity and jealousy, to date, there has been very little written about Internet infidelity and jealousy associated with cyber-relationships. Given the potential problems that online infidelity might bring to a relationship, this area of research warrants some attention. This study drew from Kitzinger and Powell's (…
The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions
IntroductionThe phrase means restrictions on normal commercial relations with a target country, including trade, investment, and other cross-border activities. Economic sanctions are either unilateral or multilateral. A unilateral sanction is imposed by one country, such as the U.S., against another country, such as North Korea. Multilateral sanctions require the cooperation of at least two nations. The clearest examples of multilateral sanctions…
Cyberspace Romance
This book focuses on online relationships and specifically cyber-flirting; the authors examine how flirting offline can be transferred to an Internet setting, through their own empirical and theoretical research
Culture, method, and the content of self-concepts
Revealing the ‘real’ me, searching for the ‘actual’ you
Looking for Love in so many Places
This study examined the characteristics of individuals who are more likely to engage in speed dating and online dating, and the types of people who are more likely to prefer these forms of dating. Older individuals and those who scored high on shyness were more likely to have tried online dating. Older individuals, those who scored high on shyness, and those who had tried online dating were more likely to consider using it in the future. Younger …
The Role of the Internet in Reconfiguring Marriages
This study explores the role of the Internet in reconfiguring marriages, introducing couples that meet in person and later marry, through a set of online surveys of married couples in Britain, Australia, and Spain. The study found that a sizeable proportion of online married couples in each country first met their spouse online, usually through an online dating service, chat room or on instant messaging (IM). This was more the case for young…
In Search of the Cartesian Self
Cyberspace has been hailed by some as a medium through which users can experience themselves as disembodied, freed from the corporeal trappings of the “real” world. Literature proclaiming the merits of this disembodied ideal has often described the user’s existential state as a form of Cartesian disembodiment, but without (in our view) giving serious consideration to whether this label is warranted. This paper explores the extent to which alterat…
The Northeast Asian Energy Situation and the North Korean Factor
IntroductionNortheast Asia consists of China, Japan, the two Koreas, the Russian Far East, and Mongolia. The Korean Peninsula stretches southward from the northeastern section of the Asian continent and faces the islands of Japan. Korea is the country where the interests and influences of the four big global powers-China, Russia, Japan, and the United States-are closely interlocked (see Figure 1 and Table 1). The United States is not part of Nort…
Should gamespace be a taboo-free zone? Moral and psychological implications for single-player video games
When assessing the appropriateness of single-player video games, it is our contention that questions dealing with the morality of their content are the wrong sorts of questions to ask. Instead, a more informative strategy is to focus on what gamers are able to deal with psychologically, especially regarding taboo violation. Thus, we argue that there is nothing morally problematic with gamespace per se, no matter how prohibitive the actions engage…
Love letters
This article considers the history of dating throughout the ages, and compares how previous forms of dating might compare to the way individuals initiate and develop relationships in cyberspace. Similarities between the ways individuals in the past developed relationships using the telegraph and love letters are elucidated. Some important differences between the Internet and these spaces are also presented. While early theories on computer-mediat…
Transcending Taboos
Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it more acceptable to murder or maim than rape? After all, in each case, it is only pixels that are being assaulted. This book avoids wrestling with the common question of whether the virtual violation of real-world taboos is right or wrong, and instead provides a theoretical framework that helps us unders…
The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model
The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Developmentof a stage model to
The online dating romance scam
The online dating romance scam is a relatively new and under-reported international crime targeting users of online dating sites. It has serious financial and emotional consequences, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. However, little if anything is known about psychological characteristics that may put people at risk of romance scam victimization, or influence how they react to it. Online daters (N=853) and participants recruited from a v…
Online Dating
The online dating romance scam
This article examines the psychological impact of the online dating romance scam. Unlike other mass-marketing fraud victims, these victims experienced a ‘double hit’ of the scam: a financial loss and the loss of a relationship. For most, the loss of the relationship was more upsetting than their financial losses (many described the loss of the relationship as a ‘death’). Some described their experience as traumatic and all were affected negativel…
Language, Psychology, and New New Media
Research on the hyperpersonal model originally described how the substitution of language for nonverbal cues, necessitated by text-based computer-mediated communication systems, transforms users’ reception, self-presentation, composition, and reciprocal reinforcement of messages in ways that create socially desirable relationships online. This article reviews the model after 25 years. It explicates the original model and mentions a sample of illu…
A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams
Background Cyber scams continue to rise worldwide, posing a significant concern due to the harm inflicted on individuals, both financially and psychologically, as well as on societies. Given that apprehending criminals is resource-intensive and challenging (as investigations require global cooperation), profiling victims is arguably more crucial than profiling criminals, starkly contrasting with other types of crimes.Methods This SLR examines var…
Psychology (18 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · The Internet (12 obras) · World Wide Web (12 obras) · Digital Games and Media (8 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Romance (8 obras) · Cyberspace (7 obras)