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      A study on the embarrassment of senders who missend emojis with opposite meanings on social apps: taking WeChat as an example

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          With the increasing popularity of social apps, sending emojis has become a very common way of expressing one’s emotions. However, situations often arise when people send the wrong emoji by mistake, or sometimes even an emoji with an opposite meaning, which can cause embarrassment to the sender. Taking WeChat as an example, which is widely used in Chinese communities, this study summarizes 10 types of dialogue situations in which the meaning of an emoji is wrongly sent and 12 types of emotional components that are related to embarrassment. The purpose of this study was to analyze the extent to which the 12 emotional components that are associated with embarrassment actually explain what embarrassment is, as well as the different degrees of embarrassment among the different genders and age groups. The results showed that (1) among the emotional components of embarrassment, shame has the highest explanation degree for embarrassment; (2) males are more likely to be affected by embarrassment than females; and (3) users aged 18–25 and 26–30 years are more likely to be affected by embarrassment than those aged between 31 and 40 when they mistakenly send WeChat emojis. This study provides a reference value for their sustainable psychological impact on social app users.

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            The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

            With currently over one billion monthly active users, the Chinese social media and multipurpose application WeChat (, Wēixìn, micro-message) has become one of the world’s most popular social media platforms. Despite its enormous number of users in Asia, WeChat is still not well known in Western countries. Against this background, the present review aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview on the functionality of this application, comparison with other popular applications such as Facebook/WhatsApp and previous research. Although WeChat has become an integral part of everyday life for many users, research has only recently begun to examine the impact of this development on the societal and individual levels. The present review summarizes the literature on this topic with a focus on the motives to engage in using the app and potential detrimental effects of excessive use. In the context of the growing popularity and increasing usage times of the app – in particular in Asian countries – future research seems warranted to examine systematically how social media platforms such as WeChat will affect interpersonal communication behavior, well-being, and mental health. The direct comparison of WeChat’s influence on the mentioned variables compared with its competitors Facebook and WhatsApp often used in Western countries will also be of high importance.
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              The role of environmental concern in the public acceptance of autonomous electric vehicles: A survey from China

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                Contributors
                313185565@qq.com
                yhsu@gm.ttu.edu.tw
                peterzhang1130@163.com
                magicjql@gmail.com
                Journal
                Psicol Reflex Crit
                Psicol Reflex Crit
                Psicologia, Reflexão e Crítica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS
                Springer International Publishing (Cham )
                0102-7972
                1678-7153
                24 August 2020
                24 August 2020
                December 2020
                : 33
                : 20
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.203507.3, ISNI 0000 0000 8950 5267, College of Science & Technology, , Ningbo University, ; Ningbo, China
                [2 ]GRID grid.412270.2, ISNI 0000 0000 8729 7628, The Graduate Institute of Design Science, , Tatung University, ; Taipei, Taiwan
                [3 ]GRID grid.16890.36, ISNI 0000 0004 1764 6123, School of Design, , The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, ; Hong Kong, China
                [4 ]GRID grid.258151.a, ISNI 0000 0001 0708 1323, School of Design, , Jiangnan University, ; Wuxi, China
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                159
                10.1186/s41155-020-00159-4
                7445226
                32833120
                85b725ec-d502-4bbe-825c-0469a2b69927
                © The Author(s) 2020

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                History
                : 30 April 2020
                : 6 August 2020
                Funding
                Funded by: Zhejiang Social Sciences
                Award ID: 16NDJC106YB
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