Private flirts, public friends: Understanding romantic jealousy responses to an ambiguous social network site message as a function of message access exclusivity

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Highlights:

• We experimentally test the effect of SNS message access exclusivity on jealousy.

• Ambiguously threatening messages evoke more negative emotion if sent privately.

• Ambiguously threatening messages evoke confrontation if sent privately.

• Message access exclusivity indirectly affects threat perception through negative emotion.

• Social network site users use privacy cues to make sense of ambivalent feelings.

摘要

•We experimentally test the effect of SNS message access exclusivity on jealousy.•Ambiguously threatening messages evoke more negative emotion if sent privately.•Ambiguously threatening messages evoke confrontation if sent privately.•Message access exclusivity indirectly affects threat perception through negative emotion.•Social network site users use privacy cues to make sense of ambivalent feelings.

论文关键词:Social network site,Facebook,Jealousy,Emotion,Masspersonal communication

论文评审过程:Available online 27 March 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.050