Computers in Human Behavior

Papers
(The TQCC of Computers in Human Behavior is 24. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Might insecurity and use of ICT enhance internet addiction and exhaust people? A study in two European countries during emergency remote working484
Emotions in the time of coronavirus: Antecedents of digital and social media use among Millennials454
What drives older adults’ acceptance of virtual humans? A conjoint and latent class analysis on virtual exercise coach attributes for a community-based exercise program453
Migration, war trauma, mental health, and technology384
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The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud266
Positive mental health mediates the association between insomnia symptoms and addictive social media use in Germany and Poland250
Appearance-related teasing, rejection sensitivity, acceptance, and coping as risks and resources associated with online appearance preoccupation over one year214
The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting: From the perspective of expression effect209
Experiencing the body as play: Cultivating older adults’ exergame experiences using embodied metaphors and multimodal feedback208
The trajectories of online mental health information seeking: Modeling search behavior before and after completion of self-report screens185
Exploring user-avatar bond profiles: Longitudinal impacts on internet gaming disorder173
The roles of stress, non-digital hobbies, and gaming time in adolescent problematic game use: A focus on sex differences172
Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings169
Long-term effect of cybervictimization on displaced aggressive behavior across two years: Mutually predicting mediators of hostile emotion and moral disengagement167
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams163
Drivers of online social media addiction in the context of public unrest: A sense of virtual community perspective162
Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance162
How do depression, duration of internet use and social connection in adolescence influence each other over time? An extension of the RI-CLPM including contextual factors161
Adolescents’ online appearance preoccupation: A 5-year longitudinal study of the influence of peers, parents, beliefs, and disordered eating158
Twitter content strategies to maximize engagement: The case of Thai Banks148
Illusion of diffusion: A percolation perspective on social structure and segregation in Twitter networks145
Personality and susceptibility to political microtargeting: A comparison between a machine-learning and self-report approach142
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support analyzing self-regulated learning: A preliminary mixed-methods evaluation from a human-centered perspective139
Problematic gaming, social withdrawal, and Escapism: The Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming (C-DOG) model133
Effects of social skills on lexical alignment in human-human interaction and human-computer interaction132
Artificial intelligence and human behavioral development: A perspective on new skills and competences acquisition for the educational context132
Longitudinal relations between gaming, physical activity, and athletic self-esteem130
Exploring the landscape of learning analytics privacy in fog and edge computing: A systematic literature review128
Shifting from face-to-face to online teaching during COVID-19: The role of university faculty achievement goals for attitudes towards this sudden change, and their relevance for burnout/engagement and128
Distorting the truth versus blatant lies: The effects of different degrees of deception in domestic and foreign political deepfakes125
Institutional behavior mechanism: Exploring the impacts of macro-environmental stimuli on continued digital payment adoption behavior125
Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography123
Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years.121
Investigating 4D movie audiences’ emotional responses to motion effects and empathy121
AI or human: How endorser shapes online purchase intention?121
Talking to a bot or a wall? How chatbots vs. human agents affect anticipated communication quality120
Robomorphism: Examining the effects of telepresence robots on between-student cooperation119
Adults still can't resist: A social robot can induce normative conformity117
The search suggestion effect (SSE): A quantification of how autocomplete search suggestions could be used to impact opinions and votes114
Online communities as a risk factor for gambling and gaming problems: A five-wave longitudinal study111
Value co-destruction: The influence of failed interactions on members’ behaviors in online travel communities111
Exploration vs. limitation – An investigation of instructional design techniques for spatial ability training on mobile devices106
The link between flow and performance is moderated by task experience106
Organizational sensemaking in tough times: The ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 issue discourse communities on social media106
Not all consumer-generated images are attractive and persuasive: A heuristic cue perspective106
Social media addiction among Hong Kong adolescents before and after the pandemic: The effects of parenting behaviors104
Associations between problematic internet use and substance misuse among US college students102
Gender differences in the longitudinal association between cumulative ecological risk and smartphone dependence among early adolescents: A parallel mediation model101
Dating apps and their relationship with body image, mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review101
Secure software design evaluation and decision making model for ubiquitous computing: A two-stage ANN-Fuzzy AHP approach99
Sensation seeking and cyberbullying among Chinese adolescents: Examining the mediating roles of boredom experience and antisocial media exposure94
Exploring users' adoption intentions of intelligent virtual assistants in financial services: An anthropomorphic perspectives and socio-psychological perspectives92
The influence of gestures and visuospatial ability during learning about movements with dynamic visualizations – An fNIRS study92
What matters most in the responses to political campaign posts on social media: The candidate, message frame, or message format?91
How do people learn about politics when inadvertently exposed to news? Incidental news paradoxical Direct and indirect effects on political knowledge91
Smartphone and the brain: Stress and self-control mediate the association between the connectome-based predictive modeling of fMRI brain network and problematic smartphone use90
Not so funny after all! Humor, parents, peers, and their link with cyberbullying experiences90
Retraction notice to “Predicting the change trajectory of employee robot-phobia in the workplace: The role of perceived robot advantageousness and anthropomorphism” [Computers in Human Behavior 135 (289
Profiling proclivity for technology-facilitated sexual violence through Dark Tetrad traits89
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Speed and symmetry: Developing effective organisational responses to social media criticism of CSR86
Restrictive deterrence and the scope of hackers’ reoffending: Findings from two randomized field trials83
What affects the usage of artificial conversational agents? An agent personality and love theory perspective82
An individual adaptive ubiquitous learning paradigm: Focusing on the collection and utilization of academic emotions82
Would you rather come to a tango concert in theater or in VR? Aesthetic emotions & social presence in musical experiences, either live, 2D or 3D82
The effects of computer-assisted adaptive instruction and elaborated feedback on learning outcomes. A randomized control trial82
Evaluating and eliciting design requirements for an improved user experience in live-streaming commerce interfaces82
Towards Intelligent-TPACK: An empirical study on teachers’ professional knowledge to ethically integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools into education81
Correcting climate change misinformation on social media: Reciprocal relationships between correcting others, anger, and environmental activism81
Social media: A double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth81
A whole new ball game: Fan perceptions of augmented reality enhanced sport broadcasts81
Do digital competencies and social support boost work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic?80
BoPo online, BoPo offline? Engagement with body positivity posts, positive appearance comments on social media, and adolescents' appearance-related prosocial tendencies80
Are screen media the new pacifiers? The role of parenting stress and parental attitudes for children's screen time in early childhood79
Online antecedents for young consumers’ impulse buying behavior78
The roles of trust, personalization, loss of privacy, and anthropomorphism in public acceptance of smart healthcare services78
Mobile gaming and Internet addiction: When is playing no longer just fun and games?78
Three Strikes and you are out!: The impacts of multiple human–robot trust violations and repairs on robot trustworthiness77
Analysis of individual characteristics influencing user polarization in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.77
What is the reported relationship between self-esteem and gaming disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis77
Relationships between use of geosocial mobile dating application “the L″ and self-objectification among Chinese female sexual minorities75
Where is the human in human-centered AI? Insights from developer priorities and user experiences74
The relationship between problematic internet use and anxiety disorder symptoms in youth: Specificity of the type of application and gender74
The influence of sensitive health disclosure on liking and likelihood of response in a non-health-related context, Facebook74
How social anxiety leads to problematic use of conversational AI: The roles of loneliness, rumination, and mind perception74
Understanding user responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter from a terror management theory perspective: Cultural differences among the US, UK and India73
Gamification for sustainability: A systematic review of applications, trends, and opportunities72
Which storytelling people prefer? Mapping news topic and news engagement in social media72
Does an individualized learning design improve university student online learning? A randomized field experiment72
The effect of different animated brand logos on consumer response —— an event-related potential and self-reported study70
Sexting, pressured sexting and associations with dating violence among early adolescents70
Foundations for Human-AI teaming for self-regulated learning with explainable AI (XAI)70
Service robots or human staff? The role of performance goal orientation in service robot adoption69
Voices of rape: Cognitive networks link passive voice usage to psychological distress in online narratives68
Can online behaviors be linked to mental health? Active versus passive social network usage on depression via envy and self-esteem66
Cyberbullying victimization and suicide ideation: A crumbled belief in a just world65
Women's sensitivity to threat in online dating and the (in)effectiveness of standard safety warnings65
Social media information literacy: Conceptualization and associations with information overload, news avoidance and conspiracy mentality64
Why is instant messaging not instant? Understanding users’ negative use behavior of instant messaging software64
The role of social media news usage and platforms in civic and political engagement: Focusing on types of usage and platforms64
What are the psychological impacts of children's screen use? A critical review and meta-analysis of the literature underlying the World Health Organization guidelines64
Cognitive emotion regulation mediates the relationship between big-five personality traits and internet use disorder tendencies63
Effectiveness of telemedicine on common mental disorders: An umbrella review and meta-meta-analysis62
Deep versus superficial anthropomorphism: Exploring their effects on human trust in shared autonomous vehicles62
Why people join pro-Ana online communities? A psychological textual analysis of eating disorder blog posts61
Problematic monetization in mobile games in the context of the human right to economic self-determination61
Leveraging Instagram to enhance self-esteem: A self-affirmative intervention study and multilevel mediation analysis61
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Brain dynamics of mental workload in a multitasking context: Evidence from dynamic causal modeling59
How placement affects brand preferences in advergames: A test of inhibition and facilitation processes during search59
Spot the bot: Investigating user's detection cues for social bots and their willingness to verify Twitter profiles59
Emotional contagion in online groups as a function of valence and status59
The impact of seeing and posting photos on mental health and body satisfaction: A panel study among Dutch and Japanese adolescents59
Analytical reasoning reduces internet fraud susceptibility59
A systematic literature review of the longitudinal risk factors associated with juvenile cyber-deviance58
The effects of group centrality and accountability on conformity to cyber aggressive norms: Two messaging app experiments57
Assessing the role of self-control and technology access on adolescent sexting and sext dissemination57
The impact of construal level on review consistency and helpfulness in online evaluations57
Impact of artificial intelligence-enabled job characteristics and perceived substitution crisis on innovative work behavior of employees from high-tech firms57
Why are physicians willing to contribute knowledge? Evidence from online health communities57
The Influence of robot personality on the development of uncanny feelings56
The influence of parents and peers on adolescents’ problematic social media use revealed56
A meta-analysis of virtual reality training programs56
Youth sexting and associations with parental media mediation56
Make chatbots more adaptive: Dual pathways linking human-like cues and tailored response to trust in interactions with chatbots55
Influence mechanism of consumers’ characteristics on impulsive purchase in E-commerce livestream marketing55
Effects of Explainable Artificial Intelligence on trust and human behavior in a high-risk decision task55
Blockchain adoption: A study of cognitive factors underpinning decision making55
Integration and analysis of diverse healthcare data sources: A novel solution54
Examining the relationship between online chatting and PISA reading literacy trends (2000-2018)54
To ignore or not to ignore: The differential effect of coping mechanisms on depressive symptoms when facing adolescent cyberbullying54
AI-induced emotions in L2 education: Exploring EFL students’ perceived emotions and regulation strategies54
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Corrigendum to cyberbullying through the lens of social influence: Predicting cyberbullying perpetration from perceived peer-norm, cyberspace regulations and ingroup processes [Comput. Hum. Behav. 10253
Let’s Bail!: The evolution of individual-group affiliation in an online gaming community53
Pandemic and the media: How risk information seeking influences media trust and emotions53
Who needs What Support? Exploring the relationship between intergenerational support and digital media use among Chinese older adults: A latent profile analysis52
Beyond the smartphone's mere presence effect: A quantitative mobile eye tracking study on the visual and internal distraction potential of smartphones52
Enhanced visual attention-based sensorimotor control abilities in long-term first person shooter game players: A gray matter comparison study on different video games52
An empirical study for blockchain-based information sharing systems in electronic health records: A mediation perspective51
Longitudinal relationships between risky online behaviors and positive technological development among early adolescents: A person-centered approach51
Associations between screen media use and young children's inhibitory control: Evidence from behavioral and fNIRS study51
Virtual reality induces symptoms of depersonalization and derealization: A longitudinal randomised control trial50
Longitudinal association between addictive internet use and depression in early adolescents over a 2-year period: A study using a random intercept cross-lagged model50
Factors affecting individual online rumor sharing behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic50
The more experienced, the better prepared? New evidence on the relation between teachers’ experience and their readiness for online teaching and learning50
AI student success predictor: Enhancing personalized learning in campus management systems50
Motivating healthcare professionals to correct online health misinformation: The roles of subjective norm, third-person perception, and channel differences50
Linking text characteristics of ideas to their popularity in online user innovation communities49
How the use of mobile fitness technology influences older adults’ physical and psychological well-being49
Harsh parenting and smartphone addiction: The mediating role of core self-evaluation and the moderating role of nature connectedness49
The agony of partner choice: The effect of excessive partner availability on fear of being single, self-esteem, and partner choice overload49
Designing and evaluating a high interactive augmented reality system for programming learning49
Instagram sober journeys: How relapse narratives and viewing orders influence audience response on social media49
Cyberbullying victimization and suicide ideation: The mediating role of psychological distress among Malaysian youth48
Dialog in the echo chamber: Fake news framing predicts emotion, argumentation and dialogic social knowledge building in subsequent online discussions48
Rage of righteousness: Anger's role in promoting debunking effects during the COVID-19 pandemic48
The effects of cultural dimensions on algorithmic news: How do cultural value orientations affect how people perceive algorithms?48
For imagination or disillusionment? The social compensation and social enhancement effects on dating anxiety for online daters who fear being single48
Automated journalism: The effects of AI authorship and evaluative information on the perception of a science journalism article48
Do I still like myself? Human-robot collaboration entails emotional consequences48
What message features influence the intention to share misinformation about COVID-19 on social media? The role of efficacy and novelty48
Synchrony facilitates altruistic decision making for non-human avatars48
The relation between the cyberhate and cyberbullying experiences of adolescents in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia47
Avatar creation in the metaverse: A focus on event expectations47
‘What lies behind the filter?’ Uncovering the motivations for using augmented reality (AR) face filters on social media and their effect on well-being47
Online media consumption and depression in young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis46
Deep mind in social responses to technologies: A new approach to explaining the Computers are Social Actors phenomena46
Evaluating privacy, security, and trust perceptions in conversational AI: A systematic review46
Exploring the competing influences of privacy concerns and positive beliefs on citizen acceptance of contact tracing mobile applications46
Diffusion of innovation in direct-to-avatar (D2A): A study of immersive communication and branding in the metaverse45
AI-powered chatbot communication with customers: Dialogic interactions, satisfaction, engagement, and customer behavior45
The neuroanatomical correlates of daily habitual tendencies and mediating effect on the association between daily habitual tendencies and symptoms of behavioral addictions45
Network analysis of internet addiction and depression among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study45
Human-autonomy Teaming: Need for a guiding team-based framework?45
Summarizing the special issue on the human factor in cybercrime45
Impacts of video communication on psychological well-being and cosmetic surgery acceptance45
Social signature in an online environment: Stability and cognitive limits44
Is there a cybercriminal personality? Comparing cyber offenders and offline offenders on HEXACO personality domains and their underlying facets44
Meltdowns and media: Moment-to-moment fluctuations in young children's media use transitions and the role of children's mood states44
Corrigendum to “Understanding factors affecting perceived sociability of social software” [Comput. Hum. Behav. 26/6 (2010) 1406] 1846–186144
Self-organized or meta-organized contests? The two faces of innovation contests in digital product innovation44
A Machine's ethos? An inquiry into artificial ethos and trust43
Smartphone use during the perinatal period: Findings from a longitudinal study with first-time parents43
Ubiquitous learning models for 5G communication network utility maximization through utility-based service function chain deployment43
Digital distraction or accessible aid? Parental media use during feedings and parent-infant attachment, dysfunction, and relationship quality43
Adaptive magnification network for precise tumor analysis in histopathological images43
Does using a green gaming system make people more environmentally friendly?42
Tantrums, toddlers and technology: Temperament, media emotion regulation, and problematic media use in early childhood42
To beautify or uglify! The effects of augmented reality face filters on body satisfaction moderated by self-esteem and self-identification42
The relationship between loot box buying, gambling, internet gaming, and mental health: Investigating the moderating effect of impulsivity, depression, anxiety, and stress42
Unleashing pre-service language teachers’ productivity with generative AI: Emotions, appraisal and coping strategies42
Conservatives endorse Fintech? Individual regulatory focus attenuates the algorithm aversion effects in automated wealth management41
Psychological barriers of using wearable devices by seniors: A mixed-methods study41
A comprehensive analysis of presence, seamlessness, and player responses in metaverse gaming41
Preschoolers' and adults' animism tendencies toward a humanoid robot41
Implicit theories of the human mind predict competitive and cooperative responses to AI robots41
What makes people share political content on social media? The role of emotion, authority and ideology41
Preliminary evidence that brief exposure to vaccination-related internet memes may influence intentions to vaccinate against COVID-1940
Extended multi-stream temporal-attention module for skeleton-based human action recognition (HAR)40
Cybercrime on the menu? Examining cafeteria-style offending among financially motivated cybercriminals40
Exploring rumor behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic through an information processing perspective: The moderating role of critical thinking40
What drives AI-based risk information-seeking intent? Insufficiency of risk information versus (Un)certainty of AI chatbots40
Machine learning for suicidal ideation identification: A systematic literature review40
Effects of childhood adversity on smartphone addiction: The multiple mediation of life history strategies and smartphone use motivations39
Talking back to mental health stigma: An exploration of YouTube comments on anti-stigma videos39
Battle of the E-cowarriors: Differential effects of environmental appeals by influencers and organizations on youth's pro-environmental attitudes and behavior intentions39
Measuring self-regulated learning and the role of AI: Five years of research using multimodal multichannel data39
Users’ emotional and behavioral responses to deepfake videos of K-pop idols39
There's No place like home: Understanding users' intentions toward securing internet-of-things (IoT) smart home networks39
Gain-loss separability in human- but not computer-based changes of mind39
Explanations and trust: What happens to trust when a robot partner does something unexpected?39
Does psychological empowerment mediate the relationship between digital competencies and job performance?39
The dark side of #bodypositivity: The relationships between sexualized body-positive selfies on Instagram and acceptance of cosmetic surgery among women38
The actualization of meta affordances: Conceptualizing affordance actualization in the metaverse games38
Exploring system wide trust prevalence and mitigation strategies with multiple autonomous agents38
The cyborg method: A method to identify fraudulent responses from crowdsourced data38
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The moderating role of school facilitating conditions and attitudes towards ICT on teachers' ICT use and emphasis on developing students’ digital skills38
Understanding the processes of trust and distrust contagion in Human–AI Teams: A qualitative approach38
Would you be willing to purchase virtual gifts during esports live streams? Streamer characteristics and cultural traits38
Mobile mindfulness: Predictors of mobile screen time tracking37
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HAPshop: How haptic information affects consumers’ purchase intentions toward online products37
Attentional inhibitory control interference related to videogames, pornography, and TV series exposure: An experimental study in three independent samples37
Impartial endorsements: Influencer and celebrity declarations of non-sponsorship and honesty37
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Linking gamers’ competitive spirit and in-game impulse purchase: The need for popularity as a mediator and social competence as a moderator37
Biased search engine autosuggestions against females and immigrants can lead to hiring discrimination: An experimental investigation36
Internet use and cyberbullying: Impacts on psychosocial and psychosomatic wellbeing among Chinese adolescents36
Building trust in automatic video interviews using various AI interfaces: Tangibility, immediacy, and transparency36
Examining online social behavior changes after migration: An empirical study based on OSN big data36
Game experience leads to improvement in cognitive functioning of the early middle-aged adults in contrast with the young-aged adults36
How do we like our online dates—customized or personalized? The differential effects of user vs. system tailoring on date preferences36
A computational deep learning approach for establishing long-term declarative episodic memory through one-shot learning36
Computers and human behavior in the smart city: Issues, topics, and new research directions36
Winners and losers of working-from home – The impact of perceived person-environment fit towards continuance intention36
How travel vlog audience members become tourists: Exploring audience involvement and travel intention35
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players35
A two-week gaming abstinence reduces Internet Gaming Disorder and improves mental health: An experimental longitudinal intervention study35
Time spent on separating waste is never wasted: Fostering people's recycling behavior through the use of a mobile application35
A randomized controlled trial investigating two protective filtering strategies to mitigate the effects of beauty-ideal media imagery on women's body image35
The personalisation-privacy paradox: Consumer interaction with smart technologies and shopping mall loyalty35
A blockchain-empowered federated learning-based framework for data privacy in lung disease detection system35
Augmented spirituality: Renewing human spirituality in a technology-driven world?35
“It’s a terrible choice to make but also a necessary one”: Exploring player experiences with moral decision making mechanics in video games35
Achievement emotions mediate the link between goal failure and goal revision: Evidence from digital learning environments35
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