Adams Aubrie, Miles Jai, Dunbar Norah E, Giles Howard
a California Polytechnic State University , San Luis , Obispo.
b University of California , Santa Barbara.
J Soc Psychol. 2018;158(4):474-490. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2017.1421895. Epub 2018 Jan 17.
This mixed-methods study applies Communication Accommodation Theory to explore how liking, power, and sex predict one's likelihood for using textisms in digital interpersonal interactions. Textisms are digital cues that convey nonverbal meaning and emotion in text communication. The main experiment used a hypothetical texting scenario to manipulate textism amounts (none/many) and participant's perceived power levels (low/equal/high) during texting interactions to examine the number of textisms participants used in subsequent responses in comparison to the number of textisms they viewed. Primary results show that (1) participants moderately converged to use similar amounts of textisms, and (2) those with low power who viewed many textisms were more likely to use textisms themselves during subsequent responses. Through the examination of adaption behaviors in text messaging, scholars can better understand the contexts in which users will include textisms to intentionally convey nonverbal meaning and emotion in digital communication.
这项混合方法研究运用沟通调适理论，以探究喜好、权力和性别如何预测一个人在数字人际互动中使用短信体的可能性。短信体是在文本交流中传达非言语意义和情感的数字线索。主要实验采用了一个假设的短信场景，在短信互动过程中操纵短信体数量（无/多）和参与者感知的权力水平（低/平等/高），以检查参与者在后续回复中使用的短信体数量与他们所看到的短信体数量相比情况。主要结果表明：（1）参与者适度趋同于使用相似数量的短信体；（2）那些权力低且看到很多短信体的人在后续回复中更有可能自己使用短信体。通过对短信中的调适行为进行考察，学者们能够更好地理解用户在哪些情境下会在数字交流中使用短信体来有意传达非言语意义和情感。
