Interacting via SMS: Practices of social closeness and reciprocation

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 343-364

  Spagnolli, Anna ^a,b   Gamberini, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of General Psychology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547332764     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466606X120482     Document Type: Article

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