The Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Expectancies in Computer-Mediated Communication

Communication Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 186-212

  Tong, Stephanie Tom ^a   Walther, Joseph B ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral confirmation; behavioral disconfirmation; computer mediated communication; expectancy effects; impression formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924915249     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650212466257     Document Type: Article

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