Computers in Human Behavior

Article	Citations
Illusion of diffusion: A percolation perspective on social structure and segregation in Twitter networks	783
The roles of stress, non-digital hobbies, and gaming time in adolescent problematic game use: A focus on sex differences	659
Diamonds are a TikTokers’ best friend: Unwrapping the motivations behind UK gifting on TikTok Live	377
Positive mental health mediates the association between insomnia symptoms and addictive social media use in Germany and Poland	331
Beyond gameplay: Unpacking non-functional purchase intention in MMOGs through community and self-presentation lenses	259
Migration, war trauma, mental health, and technology	256
Third-party punishment and its neural mechanisms in the digital age: An fNIRS investigation of subjective social class and moral orientation	254
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Exploring the landscape of learning analytics privacy in fog and edge computing: A systematic literature review	242
Mapping the symptom structure of internet gaming disorder among adolescents: Insights from network and Bayesian graph analyses	240
Twitter content strategies to maximize engagement: The case of Thai Banks	236
Exploring user-avatar bond profiles: Longitudinal impacts on internet gaming disorder	232
Adolescents’ online appearance preoccupation: A 5-year longitudinal study of the influence of peers, parents, beliefs, and disordered eating	221
AI or human: How endorser shapes online purchase intention?	211
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support analyzing self-regulated learning: A preliminary mixed-methods evaluation from a human-centered perspective	209
Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years.	187
Long-term effect of cybervictimization on displaced aggressive behavior across two years: Mutually predicting mediators of hostile emotion and moral disengagement	187
Appearance-related teasing, rejection sensitivity, acceptance, and coping as risks and resources associated with online appearance preoccupation over one year	175
Distorting the truth versus blatant lies: The effects of different degrees of deception in domestic and foreign political deepfakes	171
The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting: From the perspective of expression effect	169
Attention hijacked: How social media notifications disrupt cognitive processing	166
Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings	158
Longitudinal relations between gaming, physical activity, and athletic self-esteem	157
Experiencing the body as play: Cultivating older adults’ exergame experiences using embodied metaphors and multimodal feedback	157
Facial emotion recognition from feature loss media: Human versus machine learning algorithms	157

A study of danmu: Detecting emotional coherence in music videos through synchronized EEG analysis	155
Effects of social skills on lexical alignment in human-human interaction and human-computer interaction	149
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 factors	147
Talking to a bot or a wall? How chatbots vs. human agents affect anticipated communication quality	146
Craving and attentional bias in gaming: Comparing esports, casual, and high-risk gamers using eye-tracking	144
Measuring machine companionship experiences: Scale development and validation for AI companions	142
Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance	141
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams	140
The trajectories of online mental health information seeking: Modeling search behavior before and after completion of self-report screens	135
Institutional behavior mechanism: Exploring the impacts of macro-environmental stimuli on continued digital payment adoption behavior	129
The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud	129
Artificial intelligence and human behavioral development: A perspective on new skills and competences acquisition for the educational context	126
What drives older adults’ acceptance of virtual humans? A conjoint and latent class analysis on virtual exercise coach attributes for a community-based exercise program	123
Problematic gaming, social withdrawal, and Escapism: The Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming (C-DOG) model	123
Personality and susceptibility to political microtargeting: A comparison between a machine-learning and self-report approach	122
Relationships between use of geosocial mobile dating application “the L″ and self-objectification among Chinese female sexual minorities	121
Would you rather come to a tango concert in theater or in VR? Aesthetic emotions & social presence in musical experiences, either live, 2D or 3D	120
Three Strikes and you are out!: The impacts of multiple human–robot trust violations and repairs on robot trustworthiness	120
Cognitive effort in virtual worlds in the metaverse versus instant messaging: Disruptive impacts on team performance and strategies for recovery	119
A whole new ball game: Fan perceptions of augmented reality enhanced sport broadcasts	113
What affects the usage of artificial conversational agents? An agent personality and love theory perspective	112
An individual adaptive ubiquitous learning paradigm: Focusing on the collection and utilization of academic emotions	112
The relationship between problematic internet use and anxiety disorder symptoms in youth: Specificity of the type of application and gender	112
Not so funny after all! Humor, parents, peers, and their link with cyberbullying experiences	108
Speed and symmetry: Developing effective organisational responses to social media criticism of CSR	107
Smartphone and the brain: Stress and self-control mediate the association between the connectome-based predictive modeling of fMRI brain network and problematic smartphone use	107
Influencing driving safety by matching AI assistant's verbal emotions to driver: A randomized controlled trial on performance, attention, and emotion	106
Profiling proclivity for technology-facilitated sexual violence through Dark Tetrad traits	106
Not all consumer-generated images are attractive and persuasive: A heuristic cue perspective	106
Secure software design evaluation and decision making model for ubiquitous computing: A two-stage ANN-Fuzzy AHP approach	100
Gender differences in the longitudinal association between cumulative ecological risk and smartphone dependence among early adolescents: A parallel mediation model	100
Associations between problematic internet use and substance misuse among US college students	97
Online communities as a risk factor for gambling and gaming problems: A five-wave longitudinal study	96
Are screen media the new pacifiers? The role of parenting stress and parental attitudes for children's screen time in early childhood	96
Exploring users' adoption intentions of intelligent virtual assistants in financial services: An anthropomorphic perspectives and socio-psychological perspectives	95
Reproducing age and sex biases in perceived pain intensity and prosocial behaviors using digital characters	94
How social anxiety leads to problematic use of conversational AI: The roles of loneliness, rumination, and mind perception	94
Social media addiction among Hong Kong adolescents before and after the pandemic: The effects of parenting behaviors	91
Analysis of individual characteristics influencing user polarization in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.	90
The search suggestion effect (SSE): A quantification of how autocomplete search suggestions could be used to impact opinions and votes	90
For whom does online social support matter most? Exploring the joint moderating roles of depressive symptoms and physical functioning in the relationship between online social support and quality of l	86
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 (2	85
BoPo online, BoPo offline? Engagement with body positivity posts, positive appearance comments on social media, and adolescents' appearance-related prosocial tendencies	84
Dating apps and their relationship with body image, mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review	83
Correcting climate change misinformation on social media: Reciprocal relationships between correcting others, anger, and environmental activism	83
Online antecedents for young consumers’ impulse buying behavior	83
Evaluating and eliciting design requirements for an improved user experience in live-streaming commerce interfaces	79
Towards Intelligent-TPACK: An empirical study on teachers’ professional knowledge to ethically integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools into education	79
Social media: A double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth	78
Where is the human in human-centered AI? Insights from developer priorities and user experiences	76

What is the reported relationship between self-esteem and gaming disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis	75
The effect of different animated brand logos on consumer response —— an event-related potential and self-reported study	74
Leveraging Instagram to enhance self-esteem: A self-affirmative intervention study and multilevel mediation analysis	74
Why are physicians willing to contribute knowledge? Evidence from online health communities	73
Emotional contagion in online groups as a function of valence and status	73
Advancing understanding of the role of the family media ecology on child anxiety and depression in middle childhood: What matters most?	72
Do external threats decrease political polarization? Climate change and immigration discussions on Finnish Twitter after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	72
A systematic literature review of the longitudinal risk factors associated with juvenile cyber-deviance	72
Effectiveness of telemedicine on common mental disorders: An umbrella review and meta-meta-analysis	71
Women's sensitivity to threat in online dating and the (in)effectiveness of standard safety warnings	71
Voices of rape: Cognitive networks link passive voice usage to psychological distress in online narratives	70
Rest assured: the influence of chatbots’ assurance statements and service outcome personalization on user data management	70
Youth sexting and associations with parental media mediation	70
Analytical reasoning reduces internet fraud susceptibility	70
The impact of seeing and posting photos on mental health and body satisfaction: A panel study among Dutch and Japanese adolescents	70
“I would have gone to the original source”: Emerging and established readers’ cognitive and metacognitive strategies during online evaluation	69
Risky loot box behaviors and gambling disorder among Chinese adult purchasers: A network analysis approach	69
Service robots or human staff? The role of performance goal orientation in service robot adoption	69
How placement affects brand preferences in advergames: A test of inhibition and facilitation processes during search	68
Spot the bot: Investigating user's detection cues for social bots and their willingness to verify Twitter profiles	67
The impact of construal level on review consistency and helpfulness in online evaluations	67
Brain dynamics of mental workload in a multitasking context: Evidence from dynamic causal modeling	67
Blockchain adoption: A study of cognitive factors underpinning decision making	67
The influence of parents and peers on adolescents’ problematic social media use revealed	67
Esports and VR: how does it change EEG spectral dynamics of attention shift and maintenance?	67
Influence mechanism of consumers’ characteristics on impulsive purchase in E-commerce livestream marketing	66
Risk profiles for the perpetration of non-consensual sharing of sexual content among Spanish adolescents: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study	66
Make chatbots more adaptive: Dual pathways linking human-like cues and tailored response to trust in interactions with chatbots	66
Why is instant messaging not instant? Understanding users’ negative use behavior of instant messaging software	66
Cognitive emotion regulation mediates the relationship between big-five personality traits and internet use disorder tendencies	66
AI-induced emotions in L2 education: Exploring EFL students’ perceived emotions and regulation strategies	65
Problematic monetization in mobile games in the context of the human right to economic self-determination	65
Foundations for Human-AI teaming for self-regulated learning with explainable AI (XAI)	64
Gamification for sustainability: A systematic review of applications, trends, and opportunities	63
Social media information literacy: Conceptualization and associations with information overload, news avoidance and conspiracy mentality	63
Deep versus superficial anthropomorphism: Exploring their effects on human trust in shared autonomous vehicles	63
The impact of message framing on end-user security:An experimental approach to prevent identity theft via smishing	62
The role of social media news usage and platforms in civic and political engagement: Focusing on types of usage and platforms	62
Effects of Explainable Artificial Intelligence on trust and human behavior in a high-risk decision task	62
Which storytelling people prefer? Mapping news topic and news engagement in social media	61
The Role of Arousal and Valence in Predictions of Short Video Virality: A Psychophysiological Perspective	61
Understanding the Efficacy of Online Bystander Intervention when Journalists are the Targets	61
Impact of artificial intelligence-enabled job characteristics and perceived substitution crisis on innovative work behavior of employees from high-tech firms	60
Can online behaviors be linked to mental health? Active versus passive social network usage on depression via envy and self-esteem	60
Longitudinal relationships between risky online behaviors and positive technological development among early adolescents: A person-centered approach	60
Impacts of video communication on psychological well-being and cosmetic surgery acceptance	59
Instagram sober journeys: How relapse narratives and viewing orders influence audience response on social media	59
Predicting the onset of acute performance decline in esports	59
An empirical study for blockchain-based information sharing systems in electronic health records: A mediation perspective	59
Who is to blame for AV crashes? Public perceptions of blame attribution using text mining based on social media	58
Forty years of service, excellence, and vision, and many more to come	58
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For imagination or disillusionment? The social compensation and social enhancement effects on dating anxiety for online daters who fear being single	58
Corrigendum to cyberbullying through the lens of social influence: Predicting cyberbullying perpetration from perceived peer-norm, cyberspace regulations and ingroup processes [Comput. Hum. Behav. 102	58
Personal cancer worry and Systemic Cancer Concern: Pathways to health behaviors via social media and emotional well-being	58
Examining the relationship between online chatting and PISA reading literacy trends (2000-2018)	57
Associations between screen media use and young children's inhibitory control: Evidence from behavioral and fNIRS study	57
How do users contribute to YouTube channels’ revenue? An empirical analysis of Korean beauty channels	56
Rage of righteousness: Anger's role in promoting debunking effects during the COVID-19 pandemic	56
More criticisms, less mention of politicians, and rare party violations: A comparison of deleted tweets and publicly available tweets of U.S. legislators	56
Willingness to use home-care robots and views regarding the provision of personal information in Japan: comparison between actual or potential users and robot developers	56
Linking text characteristics of ideas to their popularity in online user innovation communities	55
Does transparency matter when an AI system meets performance expectations? An experiment with an online dating site	55
Harsh parenting and smartphone addiction: The mediating role of core self-evaluation and the moderating role of nature connectedness	55
Pandemic and the media: How risk information seeking influences media trust and emotions	54
What message features influence the intention to share misinformation about COVID-19 on social media? The role of efficacy and novelty	54
Integration and analysis of diverse healthcare data sources: A novel solution	54
Impact of mindset types and social community compositions on opinion dynamics: A large language model-based multi-agent simulation study	54
Beyond the smartphone's mere presence effect: A quantitative mobile eye tracking study on the visual and internal distraction potential of smartphones	54
Tinder for teens: Youth digital intimate cultures and tech facilitated violence on Snapchat	54
Enhanced visual attention-based sensorimotor control abilities in long-term first person shooter game players: A gray matter comparison study on different video games	53
Dialog in the echo chamber: Fake news framing predicts emotion, argumentation and dialogic social knowledge building in subsequent online discussions	53
Motivating healthcare professionals to correct online health misinformation: The roles of subjective norm, third-person perception, and channel differences	53
The more experienced, the better prepared? New evidence on the relation between teachers’ experience and their readiness for online teaching and learning	53
Cyberbullying victimization and suicide ideation: The mediating role of psychological distress among Malaysian youth	53
Who needs What Support? Exploring the relationship between intergenerational support and digital media use among Chinese older adults: A latent profile analysis	52
Avatar creation in the metaverse: A focus on event expectations	52
From icons to identity: Understanding graphicons as tools for self-representation	52
Longitudinal association between addictive internet use and depression in early adolescents over a 2-year period: A study using a random intercept cross-lagged model	51
Can professional or AI fact-checking protect trust in journalism from political attacks? The complex roles of source, transparency, ideology, and the machine heuristic	51

To ignore or not to ignore: The differential effect of coping mechanisms on depressive symptoms when facing adolescent cyberbullying	51
How the use of mobile fitness technology influences older adults’ physical and psychological well-being	51
Designing and evaluating a high interactive augmented reality system for programming learning	50
AI student success predictor: Enhancing personalized learning in campus management systems	50
Virtual reality induces symptoms of depersonalization and derealization: A longitudinal randomised control trial	50
Invisible algorithms, visible outcomes: Roles of emotional labor and work gamification in gigs	50
Human-autonomy Teaming: Need for a guiding team-based framework?	50
Effects of childhood adversity on smartphone addiction: The multiple mediation of life history strategies and smartphone use motivations	49
Automated journalism: The effects of AI authorship and evaluative information on the perception of a science journalism article	49
Evaluating privacy, security, and trust perceptions in conversational AI: A systematic review	49
Deep mind in social responses to technologies: A new approach to explaining the Computers are Social Actors phenomena	49
Network analysis of internet addiction and depression among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study	49
AI-powered chatbot communication with customers: Dialogic interactions, satisfaction, engagement, and customer behavior	49
Summarizing the special issue on the human factor in cybercrime	48
Corrigendum to ‘Unresponsive or un-noticed?: Cyberbystander intervention in an experimental cyberbullying context’ [Computers in Human Behavior 45C (2015) 144–150]	48
Corrigendum to “Understanding factors affecting perceived sociability of social software” [Comput. Hum. Behav. 26/6 (2010) 1406] 1846–1861	48
Training and oversight of algorithms in social decision-making: Algorithms with prescribed selfish defaults breed selfish decisions	48
Enhancing mental health and resilience in war-affected youth: The impact of virtual reality-induced awe experiences	48
Users’ emotional and behavioral responses to deepfake videos of K-pop idols	48
Talking back to mental health stigma: An exploration of YouTube comments on anti-stigma videos	47
Adaptive magnification network for precise tumor analysis in histopathological images	47
Is there a cybercriminal personality? Comparing cyber offenders and offline offenders on HEXACO personality domains and their underlying facets	47
Ubiquitous learning models for 5G communication network utility maximization through utility-based service function chain deployment	47
Exploring protective and risk factors for a positive sexting experience among young adults – insights from the SEX-THINK! Project	47
Smartphone use during the perinatal period: Findings from a longitudinal study with first-time parents	47
Are social media platforms blurring the lines between coercive control and healthy relationship? A study investigating perceptions of coercive control	46
Psychological barriers of using wearable devices by seniors: A mixed-methods study	46
The cyborg method: A method to identify fraudulent responses from crowdsourced data	46
There's No place like home: Understanding users' intentions toward securing internet-of-things (IoT) smart home networks	45
The relationship between loot box buying, gambling, internet gaming, and mental health: Investigating the moderating effect of impulsivity, depression, anxiety, and stress	45
A comprehensive analysis of presence, seamlessness, and player responses in metaverse gaming	45
Battle of the E-cowarriors: Differential effects of environmental appeals by influencers and organizations on youth's pro-environmental attitudes and behavior intentions	45
Gain-loss separability in human- but not computer-based changes of mind	45
The neuroanatomical correlates of daily habitual tendencies and mediating effect on the association between daily habitual tendencies and symptoms of behavioral addictions	45
Exploring rumor behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic through an information processing perspective: The moderating role of critical thinking	45
The dark side of #bodypositivity: The relationships between sexualized body-positive selfies on Instagram and acceptance of cosmetic surgery among women	45
Exploring system wide trust prevalence and mitigation strategies with multiple autonomous agents	45
Diffusion of innovation in direct-to-avatar (D2A): A study of immersive communication and branding in the metaverse	45
Would you be willing to purchase virtual gifts during esports live streams? Streamer characteristics and cultural traits	44
Implicit theories of the human mind predict competitive and cooperative responses to AI robots	44
Extended multi-stream temporal-attention module for skeleton-based human action recognition (HAR)	44
Explanations and trust: What happens to trust when a robot partner does something unexpected?	44
Bystander behavior in traditional and cyberbullying in late childhood: Profiles, developmental paths, and their associations with psychosocial adjustment	44
The actualization of meta affordances: Conceptualizing affordance actualization in the metaverse games	44
Measuring self-regulated learning and the role of AI: Five years of research using multimodal multichannel data	44
Conversational dynamics in social virtual reality: A large-scale, longitudinal study of speech acts and nonverbal behavior	44
A Machine's ethos? An inquiry into artificial ethos and trust	43
Unleashing pre-service language teachers’ productivity with generative AI: Emotions, appraisal and coping strategies	43
Conservatives endorse Fintech? Individual regulatory focus attenuates the algorithm aversion effects in automated wealth management	43
Preliminary evidence that brief exposure to vaccination-related internet memes may influence intentions to vaccinate against COVID-19	43
Does using a green gaming system make people more environmentally friendly?	43
Self-organized or meta-organized contests? The two faces of innovation contests in digital product innovation	43
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Does psychological empowerment mediate the relationship between digital competencies and job performance?	42
Meltdowns and media: Moment-to-moment fluctuations in young children's media use transitions and the role of children's mood states	42
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What drives AI-based risk information-seeking intent? Insufficiency of risk information versus (Un)certainty of AI chatbots	42
The moderating role of school facilitating conditions and attitudes towards ICT on teachers' ICT use and emphasis on developing students’ digital skills	42
To beautify or uglify! The effects of augmented reality face filters on body satisfaction moderated by self-esteem and self-identification	42
Corrigendum to ‘Network analysis of internet addiction and depression among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study’ [Computers in Human Behavior, 138 (2023), 10742	41
Altered uncertainty processing during adaptive learning in internet gaming disorder	41
Biased search engine autosuggestions against females and immigrants can lead to hiring discrimination: An experimental investigation	41
Corrigendum to ‘Digital engagement and its association with adverse psychiatric symptoms: A longitudinal cohort study utilizing latent class analysis’ [Computers in Human Behavior 133C (2022) 107290]	41
When does waiting for a reply turn into ghosting? Individual, relational, and situational predictors of feeling ignored in online messaging	41
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Corrigendum to “AI-driven personalization: Unraveling consumer perceptions in social media engagement” [Computers in Human Behavior 165 (2025) 108549]	41
Putting the Y in cyberflashing: Exploring the prevalence and predictors of the reasons for sending unsolicited nude or sexual images	41
Linking gamers’ competitive spirit and in-game impulse purchase: The need for popularity as a mediator and social competence as a moderator	41
Computers and human behavior in the smart city: Issues, topics, and new research directions	40
Augmented spirituality: Renewing human spirituality in a technology-driven world?	40
Impact of virtual reality and video backgrounds on mental health in digital meditation	40
Winners and losers of working-from home – The impact of perceived person-environment fit towards continuance intention	40
A computational deep learning approach for establishing long-term declarative episodic memory through one-shot learning	40
Internet use and cyberbullying: Impacts on psychosocial and psychosomatic wellbeing among Chinese adolescents	39
Attentional inhibitory control interference related to videogames, pornography, and TV series exposure: An experimental study in three independent samples	39
How digital literacy shapes the conversion of political awareness into participation: A cross-national comparative study of Mongolia and China	39
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players	39
A two-week gaming abstinence reduces Internet Gaming Disorder and improves mental health: An experimental longitudinal intervention study	38
A blockchain-empowered federated learning-based framework for data privacy in lung disease detection system	38
Building trust in automatic video interviews using various AI interfaces: Tangibility, immediacy, and transparency	38
Understanding the processes of trust and distrust contagion in Human–AI Teams: A qualitative approach	38
ICT use, internal communication satisfaction, and engagement of working-from-home employees: The moderating role of affiliative tendency	38
“It’s a terrible choice to make but also a necessary one”: Exploring player experiences with moral decision making mechanics in video games	38
HAPshop: How haptic information affects consumers’ purchase intentions toward online products	37
How travel vlog audience members become tourists: Exploring audience involvement and travel intention	37
I cue you liking me: Causal and spillover effects of technological engagement bait	37
A randomized controlled trial investigating two protective filtering strategies to mitigate the effects of beauty-ideal media imagery on women's body image	37
Brainwaves on battlegrounds: Preliminary insights into EEG, white matter microstructure, and StarCraft II performance	37
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Time spent on separating waste is never wasted: Fostering people's recycling behavior through the use of a mobile application	37
Fake news, consumer cynicism and negative word-of-mouth: The mitigating role of trust in social media advertising	37
Associations between parental media mediation and youth attitudes about online privacy in a sample of US adolescents	37
Digital and physical factors influencing an individual's preventive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan: A perspective based on the S–O–R model	36
Swipe right to consent: How dating app usage by young adults contributes to sexual objectification and sexual consent miscommunication	36
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