Browsing School of Applied Social Sciences by Author "Rai, Roshan"

Adolescent Egocentrism and the Illusion of Transparency: Are Adolescents as Egocentric as we Might Think?

Rai, Roshan; Mitchell, Peter; Kadar, Tasleem; Mackenzie, Laura (Article)

The illusion of transparency, or people’s tendency to believe their thoughts and feelings as more apparent to others than they actually are, was used to investigate adolescent egocentrism. Contrary to previous research ...

Egocentrism and cyberbullying: Imaginary audience and personal fable ideation predict cyberbullying and cyber victimisation in adolescents and emerging adults.

Rai, Roshan; Smith, Emily; Svirydzenka, N. (Conference)

Egocentrism and cyberbullying: Imaginary audience and personal fable ideation predict cyberbullying and cyber victimisation in adolescents and emerging adults. Objectives: The imaginary audience and personal fable, or the ...

Five-year-old children's difficulty with false belief when the sought entity is a person.

Rai, Roshan; Mitchell, Peter (Article)

Five-year-old children’s ability to impute inferentially-based knowledge.

Rai, Roshan; Mitchell, Peter (Article)

The illusion-of-transparency and episodic memory: are people egocentric or do people think lies are easy to detect?

Rai, Roshan; Mitchell, Peter; Faelling, Joanne (Article)

The illusion-of-transparency seems like an egocentric bias, in which people believe that their inner feelings, thoughts and perspectives are more apparent to others than they actually are. In Experiment 1, participants ...

Materialism and Facebook usage: Could materialistic and non-materialistic values be linked to using Facebook differently?

Rai, Roshan; Blocksidge, Jade; Cheng, Mei-I (Book chapter / Conference)

Materialism is a set of human values that places importance on the symbolic value of money or material goods. Furthermore, materialistic values have been associated with Internet usage, and also social media usage. The ...

Materialistic values, brand knowledge and the mass media: Hours spent on the Internet predicts materialistic values and brand knowledge

Rai, Roshan; Chauhan, C.; Cheng, M. (Article)

Materialism can be seen as the importance people attached to material goods, as well as the belief in the desirable symbolic importance goods have (e.g., to status, human happiness etc.). And the media has often been ...