Paper Info
Title
Victims' Goal Understanding, Uncertainty Reduction, And Perceptions In Cyberbullying: Theoretical Evidence From Three Experiments
Abstract
Cyberbullying is repetitive and aggressive behavior transmitted through mediated channels aimed at directing malice toward a victim with a to-harm goal. Three experiments manipulated a cyberbully's identity uncertainty-each employing different stimuli and scenarios-and assessed individuals' responses to being victimized. Experiment I demonstrated victims' information-seeking about a bully's identity and motives, emotional valence, and social attractiveness to the bully depend on victims' uncertainties about the bully's motives and identity. Experiment 2 examined victims' particular inferences about a bully's goals, revealing victims find bullies more socially attractive when they think a bully is trying to personally attack them or gain status, but only if the bully is anonymous. Experiment 3 aimed to replicate findings with a modified method and an extended rationale explaining why inferring attack and upward-mobility goals enhances the attractiveness of an unknown bully, showing that victims' ability to cope with the bullying episode is a critical mediator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1093/jcmc/zmaa005
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Bullying, Victimization, Technological Affordances, Uncertainty, Goals, Interpersonal Communication
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1083-6101
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
nicholas a palomares101.69
V Skye Wingate200.34