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Arjan E. R. Bos

Researcher at Open University

Publications -  119
Citations -  5072

Arjan E. R. Bos is an academic researcher from Open University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social support & Population. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 109 publications receiving 4378 citations. Previous affiliations of Arjan E. R. Bos include Windesheim University of Applied Sciences & Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Stigma: Advances in Theory and Research

TL;DR: This article provided a theoretical overview of the stigma concept and offered a useful taxonomy of four types of stigma (public stigma, self-stigma, stigma by association, and structural stigma).
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Emoticons and social interaction on the Internet: the importance of social context

TL;DR: Results showed that participants used more emoticons in socio-emotional than in task-oriented social contexts, and an interaction was found between valence and kind of context; in negative, task- oriented contexts subjects used the least emoticons.
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Emoticons in computer-mediated communication: Social motives and social context

TL;DR: Results showed that emoticons are mostly used to express emotion, to strengthen a message, and to express humor.
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Emoticons and Online Message Interpretation

TL;DR: To a large extent, emoticons serve the same functions as actual nonverbal behavior in terms of strengthening the intensity of a verbal message.
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HIV-related stigma and psychological distress: The harmful effects of specific stigma manifestations in various social settings

TL;DR: Certain experiences of stigmatization withPLWHA's families and in healthcare settings were more strongly related to psychological distress than experiences occurring in other social settings, suggesting that stigma reduction interventions focusing on these influential settings may benefit the psychological well being of PLWHA.