The effects of response disequilibrium on social media use: A laboratory analogue.
Behav Processes
; 215: 104995, 2024 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
Response disequilibrium is the perturbation of unconstrained behavior with a contingency. For example, the imposition of advertisements before or after viewing TikTok videos. The purpose of this laboratory analogue was to determine the effects of two such response disequilibrium conditions (1) which required participants to view 5 s increments of advertisements to access 2 s increments of TikTok videos and (2) which required participants to view 5 s increments of TikTok videos to access 15 s increments of advertisements. The disequilibrium condition in (1) is called a response deficit due to the restricted access to TikTok videos relative to baseline while (2) is called a response excess due to the overabundance of advertisements relative to baseline. Additionally, participants had access to a third activity that was freely available throughout. Participants could browse images of TikTok video thumbnails while in deficit and excess. As predicted, participants increased their viewing of advertisements when TikTok was in deficit and decreased their viewing of TikTok when advertisements were in excess. Furthermore, some participants substituted TikTok with browsing during the excess of advertisements. This investigation has implications for a behavioral economic analysis of social media use and the contingency management of time spent on these platforms.
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MEDLINE
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Ataxia Cerebelosa
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Medios de Comunicación Sociales
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Discapacidad Intelectual
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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Behav Processes
Año:
2024
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Article
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