Junwen Hu

Check out our latest work on how affordance may protect socially vulnerable individuals on digital platforms.

03.09.2025 21:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agree. Online behavioral data may be an affordable alternative option for longitudinal data, but uses can depend on the nature of the theory. I most often see agenda setting being engaged with social media data but less so other media theories.

01.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The link is down, Sam

08.08.2025 05:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Are anxiously attached dating app users less successful and feeling worse after use? The moderating role of perceived anonymity affordance Previous research has demonstrated that anxiously attached individuals have frustrating dating experiences in face-to-face communication. However, little research has tested the association between...

New pub 🤳What do attachment anxiety and platform affordance say about dating app experiences? My coauthor Dr. Marina F. Thomas and I did a study to find out. Take a look via the link (open access). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

05.08.2025 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I found a cute NCA guide from MSU’s Comm PhD intro class back in 2022, prepared and handed out to us by John (Sherry).

20.07.2025 23:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for reposting!! I’m excited when scholars’ ideas come together from different angles. My amazing coauthors, Amanda Holmstrom, @natpen.bsky.social and Jeffrey Hall. The data are from the American Friendship Project.

20.07.2025 01:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

accepted paper

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Singing "lucky" now because my coauthors are so amazing. #nca

17.07.2025 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m not a fan of articles that summarize findings as “nuanced”—if you can’t explain it in a nutshell, how do you expect your readers to do it?

16.07.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A milestone in my AI matchmaking research: after seeing some pattern in earlier interview and survey studies (Hu 2024a/b; Hu & Wang; Hu & Zhan), me and Erika tested the self-fulfilling prophecy of algorithmic beliefs w/ experiments. More to come! Grateful for folks' support. Happy to chat more!

21.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stronger Algorithmic Beliefs Were Associated with More Benign Interpretations in Unideal Online Dating Scenarios | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Communication scholars have approached heterogeneous experiences in romantic interactions online from the perspective of algorithmic beliefs. People with higher algorithmic beliefs trust more that alg...

🤳NewPub w/ YooJung Oh: Ghosting, message delays, emotionally unavailable partner… online dating is fraught w/ distress. But some navigate it well. Read & see how mindsets about AI matchmaking @lieselsharabi.bsky.social shape dating outcomes! 🚀 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

21.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

iconic. secretly marked to used in mine.

19.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this support gap?

18.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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🤳New pub alert! Emotional support is great—especially when messages are empathic, insightful. But, not all friends offer that kind of support. And interestingly, your own traits predict how likely you are to have the more helpful friends around. See my recent JSPR paper: doi.org/10.1177/0265....

17.06.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What Friendship Characteristics Are Associated With Well‐Being Among Unpartnered Individuals in the United States? This paper replicates and extends prior work that demonstrated the general importance of friendships for maintaining well-being, with a focus on unpartnered/single individuals. Using data from two qu...

🤳New pub: Can you be a happy single? Maybe-depending on your approach to friendships. Check out my paper with Amanda Holmstrom, @natpen.bsky.social, and Jeff A. Hall, using data from the American Friendship Project. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #relationship onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

16.06.2025 22:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm honored that my research was commented by Dr. DePaulo. In pop culture, a partner is often called "the one" whereas friends are "just friends". In my recent JSPR paper, it seems that there are good reasons to revisit our view of friendships. #relationship #depression doi.org/10.1177/0265...

16.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1