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Publication details [#58153]

Hancock, Jeffrey T., Natalya N. Bazarova and L. Crystal Jiang. 2013. From Perception to Behavior: Disclosure Reciprocity and the Intensification of Intimacy in Computer-Mediated Communication. Communication Research 40 (1) : 125–143.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | computer communication system | face-to-face interaction | intimacy | self-presentation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper presents and tests a new theoretical mechanism, the perception-behavior intensification effect, to account for enhanced self-disclosure confidentiality in text-based computer-mediated versus face-to-face (FtF) communication.