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The influence of personality traits on impulsive online shopping behaviours
(2018)
The objective of this research was to seek and understanding of how the role of demographics and personality traits influence impulsive shopping behaviours within online retail platforms. Whilst previous research has focused ...
Analysing the relationship between personality traits and use of emoji in the workplace
(2017)
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality, age and gender and the use of emoji in the workplace. To date, there is a gap in knowledge of how emoji are used in professional communication. ...
The impact of unconscious gender bias on online professional networking & recruitment
(2018)
The differences in how men and women communicate has been a popular debate and of interest to researchers for many years. Conflict and misunderstanding derived from different gender communication styles have had an impact ...
A cross-cultural analysis of personality traits in Irish and American online dating profiles
(2011)
This research used language analysis to determine personality traits from written text, in the profiles of Irish and American online daters. The free text element of 150 Irish and 150 American Caucasian, male, online daters’ ...
The conscious and compulsive connection - An exploratory investigation into potential predictors of nomophobia among Irish smartphone users
(2019)
The concept of Nomophobia is recognised among researchers when describing smartphone separation anxiety. This has been a subject of growing interest; however little research has been done into the phenomena’s correlational, ...
Becoming more human: Changing beliefs through cognitive empathy in video games
(2019)
The goal of this study was to investigate the importance of empathy, and more specifically perspective taking towards an avatar, in the possible change of social belief through video game experience. Participants were ...
The self-control of smartphone use: Training young adults to break the habit
(Institute of Art, Design and Technology, 2017)
Smartphone penetration is continuing to grow worldwide with these gadgets offering many benefits to users. However, negative effects of too much ‘screen time’ are beginning to be documented, particularly among younger ...
Exploring health anxiety and dependence in healthy adult users of m-Health apps and wearables
(2016)
Mobile health technology (m-Health) is a fast growing industry based around the use of mobile apps, wearable sensors and devises to provide a personalised system of health management through monitoring a range of bodily ...
Always thank the Bus Driver - A longitudinal observational study of the effects of prosocial behaviour in an online gaming community
(2019)
This research addresses a longitudinal observational analysis of the affect an introduced prosocial action has on an online community by measuring linguistic markers. A data set was collected from an online community, ...
A qualitative investigation into the psychological impacts of using mobile dating apps and online dating sites
(2016)
Despite the prevalence of online and mobile dating within modern society, there has been little psychological research into the emotional impacts of using these sites and apps. This study seeks to close this gap by ...