Mark Carrier

California State University, Fullerton | CSUF

Where is false online information coming from? How does it spread? How can we spot it? This symposium combines psychology and history, sharing the results from a study of 2,000+ U.S. residents who are eligible voters as well as a historical analysis.

This study examined physiological stress reactions-galvanic skin response (GSR) and heart rate-to an induced state of nomophobia (inability to use one's smartphone). A 2 x 2 experimental design was employed: half the participants received text message smartphone alerts that they could not answer; the other half silenced and put away their phones. H...

U.S. Latinos can experience acculturative stress, and, simultaneously, an “immigrant‐paradox effect” where mental health declines despite rising socio‐economic status. Technology and social media might have positive effects upon stress associated with acculturation, for example, use of social networking sites could build social support. But, there...

This study investigated how technology use impacts academic performance. A proposed model postulated that academic performance could be predicted by a cognitive independent variable—executive functioning problems—and an affective independent variable—technological anxiety or FOMO (fear of missing out)—mediated by how students choose to use technolo...

Many fear that social networking sites (SNSs) are disconnecting people from meaningful face-to-face relationships. Nevertheless, previous research suggests that SNS use is related to increased face-to-face communication. The present study was conducted to determine whether personality traits and attachment styles moderate this relationship. Student...

Objectives: Sleep problems related to technology affect college students through several potential mechanisms including displacement of sleep due to technology use, executive functioning abilities, and the impact of emotional states related to stress and anxiety about technology availability. Design: In the present study, cognitive and affective...

Overuse of wireless mobile devices (WMDs) may be associated with a form of psychological dependency, of which a prominent feature may be anxiety arising from separation from these devices. College students, who are among the most avid consumers of WMDs, might be susceptible to the negative effects of WMD overuse. The present study examined anxiety...

Current approaches to measuring people’s everyday usage of technology-based media and other computer-related activities have proved to be problematic as they use varied outcome measures, fail to measure behavior in a broad range of technology-related domains and do not take into account recently developed types of technology including smartphones....

Current approaches to measuring people's everyday usage of technology-based media and other computer-related activities have proved to be problematic as they use varied outcome measures, fail to measure behavior in a broad range of technology-related domains and do not take into account recently developed types of technology including smartphones....

a b s t r a c t Electronic communication is emotionally gratifying, but how do such technological distractions impact academic learning? The current study observed 263 middle school, high school and university students studying for 15 min in their homes. Observers noted technologies present and computer windows open in the learning environment prio...

a b s t r a c t This study systematically tested whether the use of specific technologies or media (including certain types of Facebook use), technology-related anxieties, and technology-related attitudes (including multi-tasking preference) would predict clinical symptoms of six personality disorders (schizoid, narcissistic, antisocial, compulsive...

Studies associate media use with an increasing sleep deficit, but fail to provide an explanatory mechanism. This study proposed a path model to examine potential technological mechanism(s) disrupting sleep, focusing on whether sleep is disrupted biologically through melatonin suppression, psychologically through cognitive processes while viewing me...

Human sex trafficking is the recruiting, transporting, harboring, or receiving of a person who is then coerced into prostitution. It is the third largest criminal enterprise in the world (FBI, 2011). The Internet has made this activity more efficient and feasible due to social networking and online classified advertisements (FBI, 2011). Further, re...

Little research has investigated the emotional reactions to computer-mediated communication (CMC) messages. Since much of the emotional content of a message is conveyed through non-verbal cues (e.g., visual, tactile, kinesthetic), video-mediated communication promises a similar level of emotion-related communication as in face-to-face (F2F) interac...

The purpose of this study was to find out if 3D stereoscopic presentation of information in a movie format changes a viewer's experience of the movie content. Four possible pathways from 3D presentation to memory and learning were considered: a direct connection based on cognitive neuroscience research; a connection through immersion in that 3D pre...

The online world is full of opportunities for risky and dangerous behavior, and it is clear that a significant number of Internet users engage in such behaviors. The purpose of this study is to investigate the risky behaviors that youths and adults engage in when they go online. Eight hundred and ninety-six participants, defined as Internet users a...

The widespread use of cell phones has led to the proliferation of messages sent using the Short Messaging Service (SMS). The 160-character limit on text messages encourages the use of shortenings and other shortcuts in language use. When bilingual speakers use SMS, their access to multiple sources of vocabulary, sentence structure, and other langua...

The Net Generation has adopted textisms as shortcuts in electronic communication. Two studies investigated whether the reported use of textisms in daily electronic communication is related to the quality of writing. Seven hundred and eighteen young adults were queried about how often they used linguistic and contextual textisms, instant messaging,...

This study investigated whether changes in the technological/social environment in the United States over time have resulted in concomitant changes in the multitasking skills of younger generations. One thousand, three hundred and nineteen Americans from three generations were queried to determine their at-home multitasking behaviors. An anonymous...

Parent and teen MySpace user pairs completed online surveys administered in June (N = 266) and September 2006 (N = 341) to assess relationships between parenting styles and limit setting and monitoring of online behaviors, the prevalence of Internet dangers and pre-teen and teen MySpace behaviors. Cross-comparison measures of MySpace usage, parenti...

For a closed-book examination, study strategies that could promote deep processing correlated positively with scores but were not likely to be used by the 46 students. For an open-book, open-note examination, strategies that might have led to confusion regarding the locations of material in the textbook and lecture notes correlated negatively with...

Applied a self-report approach to 2 examinations of different types of study strategies in an upper-division college course. The 1st examination was a closed-book multiple-choice tests of 60 items. 46 students returned questionnaires. The 2nd examination was an open-book, open-note multiple-choice test of 30 items. For a closed-book examination, st...

presents an overview of the structures and processes of human memory from an information processing perspective / describes the memory systems that play an important role in our explicit memory for experiences (e.g., in tasks like recall and recognition) / describes the characteristics of these systems and provides an overview of the various kinds...

The hypothesis that episodic memory retrieval can occur in parallel with other cognitive processes was tested in 2 experiments. Participants memorized words and then performed speeded cued recall (Experiment 1) or speeded yes-no recognition (Experiment 2) in a dual-task situation. The psychological refractory period design was used: The participant...

Four dual-task experiments required a speeded manual choice response to a tone in a close temporal proximity to a saccadic eye movement task. In Experiment 1, subjects made a saccade towards a single transient; in Experiment 2, a red and a green colour patch were presented to left and right, and the saccade was to which ever patch was the pre-speci...

Four experiments tested the hypothesis that successful retrieval of an item from memory affects retention only because the retrieval provides an additional presentation of the target item. Two methods of learning paired associates were compared. In the pure study trial (pure ST condition) method, both items of a pair were presented simultaneously f...