Managing Social Reputation in Twitter

2013 ◽  
pp. 91-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabell Preussler ◽  
Michael Kerres
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Social Reputation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Status Information ◽  
Reward Mechanism

Online communities, like Twitter, attract thousands of users worldwide spending hours communicating with others via the Internet. Most platforms offer mechanisms that show the ‘rank’ or ‘social reputation’ users have gained within the social community the platform establishes. This chapter analyses the motivation of users to engage intensively from a social psychological perspective and follows the hypotheses that these status information function as a highly effective reward mechanism. The chapter describes the results of a survey that has been conducted with users of Twitter in order to find out how important it is for users to gain ‘followers’. The chapter outlines a theoretical construct that explains why users try to gain social reputation in different virtual worlds. For this, a typology of virtual worlds has been developed based on possible spill-over effects of social reputation that can be gained in virtual and real worlds.

Tool for or source of action? A social psychological perspective on the influence of virtual worlds on reality

First Monday ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Schumann ◽  
Francois Luong
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Behavior Model ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective ◽  
The Revolution

Social movements are, especially since the revolution in Egypt, often linked to the mobilizing “power” of the Internet. Very frequently, the Internet is viewed as a tool to coordinate and organize such actions. The aim of this article is to extend this perspective and introduce a framework of explicit and implicit mechanisms that can enforce a transfer of online actions off–line. We relate the proposed framework to the behavior model of persuasive design to identify necessary conditions for this transfer.

Symbolic interactionism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Brittan
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Social World ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interactive View

Symbolic interactionism is in the main a US sociological and social psychological perspective that has focused on the reciprocal relationship between language, identity and society. Philosophically it has largely been associated with pragmatists such as James (1907), Mead (1934), Dewey (1922) and Pierce (1958), although in the European context it has affinities with hermeneutics and phenomenology. In addition, it has links with various ‘dramaturgical’ approaches to communication that emphasize the interactive processes underpinning the construction, negotiation, presentation and affirmation of the self. In brief, symbolic interactionism is premised on the supposition that human beings are ‘active’ and not ‘reactive’. Although it is not easy to spell out the central propositions of Symbolic Interactionism in a systematic way, nevertheless, most of its proponents are committed to an interactive view of self and society, that is, they take issue with those views that see the social world as a seamless unity that completely encapsulates and determines individual conduct.

Gender in Coed Team Sports: A Social Psychological Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Adam Vanzella-Yang ◽  
Tobias Finger
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Expectation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Expectation States Theory ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective

Coed team sports typically offer different experiences for women and men. Though scholars have documented gender imbalances in participation within such teams, the social psychological processes at play and the broader consequences of unequal participation have rarely been explored. In this paper, the authors revisit coed team sports through the lens of status construction theory and expectation states theory to suggest that coed teams reinforce gendered notions of worth, prestige, and competence in the field of sport. The authors draw on research showing that mixed-sex settings where people must cooperate to achieve a common goal are especially prone to the reproduction of gender stereotypes. This paper builds bridges between two subfields of sociology and illuminates gender dynamics in a coed sport that has not been previously studied (futsal).

Hypnotic Visual Hallucinations as Imaginings: A Cognitive-Social Psychological Perspective

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas P. Spanos ◽  
H. Lorraine Radtke
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Test ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Visual Hallucinations ◽  
Test Situation ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Do So ◽  
Positive Motivation ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective

Research pertaining to the phenomenology of hypnotic (suggested) visual hallucinations is reviewed within a cognitive-social psychological framework. Suggested hallucinations are conceptualized as cognitive-social enactments; as imaginings generated by co-operative subjects to meet the social demands of the experimental test situation. These imaginings differ from corresponding perceptions even in highly responsive (i.e., susceptible) subjects, and when provided with the opportunity to do so, the majority of subjects describe such experiences as “imagined” rather than as “seen.” The few subjects who report that they “saw” the suggested object and believed that it was actually there appear to be highly absorbed in their imaginings. Consequently, they fail to attend to information that contradicts the status of their imaginings as external (i.e., “real”) happenings. Responsiveness to hallucination suggestions is no more strongly facilitated by hypnotic procedures than by short instructions aimed at ensuring subjects' cooperation and positive motivation. There is no support for the hypothesis that hallucinations in hypnotic subjects reflect the operation of a hypothetical hypnotic state.

The Typological and Psychological Features of the Entrepreneur and Their Impact on Ethical Behavior

2018 ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Svetlana Gorobievschi ◽  
Lavinia Nădrag
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Features

Throughout the knowledge-based human society development, the human factor in organizational management has become a competitive factor due to its professional competence and social skills. The authors of this research have set the aim of characterizing the entrepreneur from the social-psychological perspective that influences his/her ethical behavior. The authors have dealt with the typological and psychological traits from a theoretical perspective, have summarized the concept of temperament and character showing that there is interaction between them; also, they have characterized and classified them into groups, providing several examples. In the practical part, the authors conducted tests on students at the Technical University of Moldova using psychological evaluation tests of temperament and character, proposed by scholars well-known in this field.

Naive Scientists

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasana T. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective

The fifth chapter presents a toy model for the development of social cognition based on psychology experiments that explore this ability in babies, infants and children. It explores when infants dissociate people from objects and other non-human agents, reviewing classical models in developmental psychology that describe these processes. It also explores the development of language, intentionality, and emotion in infants, highlighting commonalities and differences between these important components of social cognition. Finally, it addresses the theoretical debate between theory-theory and and simulation accounts of social cognition, before arguing for a more social psychological perspective that takes the social context into account.

scholarly journals Euripides’ Medea and Jason: A Study in the Social Power of Love

Phronimon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Kofi Ackah
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Power Game ◽  
Social Psychological Theory ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective

Euripides’ Medea resonates with modern issues in intimate relationships. However, little has been written on this, especially from the social-psychological perspective. This paper explores the breakdown of the Jason-Medea marriage in terms of the social-psychological theory of love as an exchange in a power game in which a certain degree of imbalance in the exchange could account for such a breakdown. I analyse the Medea text in terms of Olson and Cromwell’s (1975) tripartite theoretical framework, namely: (a) the bases on which social power is built; (b) the processes by which social power is wielded; and (c) the outcomes produced by the use of social power. I find that Medea carried a greater burden of love towards Jason than Jason did towards her, fuelled and sustained by her enduring and greater need for security and happiness. And in intimate relationships, the principle of least interest (Waller and Hill 1951) works: the beloved tends to dominate the lover. Jason, however, overreached himself when he violated the minimum conditions of his own desirability – fidelity to and respect for Medea. I conclude that Medea’s violent reaction to Jason’s conduct indicates the fragility of love as a basis of social power in intimate relationships.

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