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Digital Discrimination: An Ergonomic Approach to Emotional Education for the Prevention of Cyberbullying

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (IEA 2018)

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to shed some light on the complex relationship between cognitive, socio-affective and contextual (i.e. the technology and the way in which it is used) factors, which intervene in the context of prosocial and antisocial behavior, both in the real and virtual world. Results coming from a survey with a sample of 264 subjects show that those who perform victimization on the Internet are more likely to be more dependent on the use of the Internet and stay on social networks for more time in a day. In addition, while the aggressive behavior and the disengagement seem to be more correlated with a detachment towards the victim and therefore to a lower level of affective empathy, the helping behavior seems to be characterized by a greater cognitive capacity and a greater understanding of the other.

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  1. Department of Social, Political and Social Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Margherita Bracci, Alison Margaret Duguid, Enrica Marchigiani, Paola Palmitesta & Oronzo Parlangeli

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  1. University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, San Marino

    Sebastiano Bagnara

  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Tartaglia

  3. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Sara Albolino

  4. Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Thomas Alexander

  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

    Yushi Fujita

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Bracci, M., Duguid, A.M., Marchigiani, E., Palmitesta, P., Parlangeli, O. (2019). Digital Discrimination: An Ergonomic Approach to Emotional Education for the Prevention of Cyberbullying. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 826. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_76

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