Social Intimacy

SNS as Intimacy Zone: Social Intimacy, Loneliness, and Self- disclosure on SNS

This study explores factors that may influence one’s self-disclosure on SNS where one selfdisclose information in the public eye. Social intimacy and loneliness as indicators of one’s social relationship status are found to be both significantly, though contradictorily related to self-disclosure on SNS. Social intimacy and loneliness function are mediators in the direct effect of personality on...

Strangers You May Know: Social Surveillance and Intimacy Online

Online social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn regularly use People You May Know (PYMK) algorithms to encourage connectivity among their users. We argue that these algorithms have the unintended effect of making users’ interactions more visible, which can deter them from being intimate online. To test this theory, we analyze data from a large online social network that lets users buy and exc...

Social interaction in pain: reinforcing pain behaviors or building intimacy?

Public Intimacy: Disclosure Interpretation and Social Judgments on Facebook

This research examines how sociotechnical affordances shape interpretation of disclosure and social judgments on social networking sites. Drawing on the disclosure personalism framework, Study 1 revealed that information unavailability and relational basis underlay personalistic judgments about Facebook disclosures: Perceivers inferred greater message and relational intimacy from disclosures ma...

Hostility moderates the effects of social support and intimacy on blood pressure in daily social interactions.

OBJECTIVE This study sought to determine the role of hostility in moderating the effects of positive social interactions on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). DESIGN Participants (341 adults) completed the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale and underwent ABP monitoring, assessed every 45 min during waking hours across 6 days. An electronic diary measuring mood and social interactions was completed at ...