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Brandon Van Der Heide
Researcher at Michigan State University
Publications - 36
Citations - 3586
Brandon Van Der Heide is an academic researcher from Michigan State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Warranting theory. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 32 publications receiving 3261 citations. Previous affiliations of Brandon Van Der Heide include Ohio State University.
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The Role of Friends’ Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep?
TL;DR: The authors explored how cues deposited by social partners onto one's online networking profile affect observers' impressions of the profile owner, and found that profile owners' friends' attractiveness affected their own in an assimilative pattern.
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Too Much of a Good Thing? The Relationship Between Number of Friends and Interpersonal Impressions on Facebook
TL;DR: It is suggested that an overabundance of friend connections raises doubts about Facebook users’ popularity and desirability.
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Social Media as Information Source: Recency of Updates and Credibility of Information
TL;DR: Data indicate that recency of tweets impacts source credibility; however, this relationship is mediated by cognitive elaboration, which suggests many implications for theory and application, both in computer-mediated communication and crisis communication.
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Self-Generated Versus Other-Generated Statements and Impressions in Computer-Mediated Communication A Test of Warranting Theory Using Facebook
TL;DR: Two experiments employed mock-up profiles resembling the Internet site, Facebook, to display self- generated clues and to display other-generated clues about a Facebook user, supporting warranting theory exclusively and potential effects of social comments on a variety of new information forms.
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A social network as information: The effect of system generated reports of connectedness on credibility on Twitter
TL;DR: Examination of system-generated cues available in social media impact perceptions of a source's credibility indicates that curvilinear effects for number of followers exist, such that having too many or too few connections results in lower judgments of expertise and trustworthiness.