Michelle Drouin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Michelle Drouin

American psychology researcher

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1974

Place of Birth: Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States

Profession: psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Michelle Drouin

  • Michelle Drouin is an American researcher who focuses on psychological issues dealing with social media and communications technology.
  • She has studied deception during sexting, and how texting and sexting affect attachment in relationships between college students, as well as between adult relationships.
  • She found correlations between coercive sexting and mental health problems as well as links between Internet trolling and sadism.
  • She described how people sometimes use social media to maintain back-burner relationships to keep alive connections to possible future romantic partners.
  • Much of her research focuses on social media sites such as Facebook; for example, she found that some people make new romantic connections by friending people on Facebook.
  • She studied the issue of phantom vibrations experienced by many cell phone users in which a phone seems to vibrate but doesn't; a study she conducted found that 89% of students experienced a phantom vibration at least once every two weeks.
  • She found that people were more likely to experience phantom vibrations if they expected to react emotionally to incoming communications.
  • Her research found that young adults generally do not support the practice of employers using social media when making hiring decisions.
  • Drouin is associate professor of psychology at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne.

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