"Can you hear me now?": The paradoxes of techno -intimacy via the use of personalized communication technology in public.
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Title
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"Can you hear me now?": The paradoxes of techno -intimacy via the use of personalized communication technology in public.
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Identifier
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AAI3103097
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identifier
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3103097
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Creator
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Cumiskey, Kathleen Mae.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Michelle Fine
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Date
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2003
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Social | Psychology, Personality
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Abstract
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The intent of this dissertation is to present a social psychological approach to studying the psychological impact of public cell phone use on social interactions. Two surveys were administered to 171 students from the College of Staten Island (CUNY). In one version of the survey, half of the participants were asked to respond to questions related to their own cell phone use in public. The other half of the participants were asked to respond to the same set of questions, yet in this version, the items pertained to the public cell phone use of others.;As predicted, a strong correspondence bias was found between the attributions made about one's own cell phone use in public and the public cell phone use of others. The results of the statistical analyses are in accordance with the basic tenets of correspondence bias. When asked to make causal attributions as to why people have cell phone conversations in public, subjects were more likely to make dispositional attributions in relation to the behavior of others than attributions related to situational constraints. Participants also committed the self-serving bias in that they favored situational attributions over dispositional attributions to explain their own use of cell phones in public. Participants judged their own behavior more in accordance with social norms of public behavior than the behavior of "other people".;There were significant differences in the emotional responses of participants to other people's cell phone behavior in public in comparison to their emotional responses to their own public cell phone conversations. Participants reported that they experienced a negative reaction to other people's cell phone use in public. When asked about their own cell phone use in public, participants reported more positive responses. These differences in emotional ratings in conjunction with the self-other bias in responses could indicate participants' belief in the intentionality of the actions of other people. A qualitative analysis of participants' stories about public cell phone use was completed to further investigate the quantitative results of this study.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
