Dr. Martin Tanis

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Martin Tanis is assistant professor in Communication at the Department of Communication Science, VU University Amsterdam. His primary research interest focuses on online social behavior. In this field, he has published on online collaboration, online gaming, and online social support for patients and caregivers. In addition to his work on online social behavior, he has a special interest in group-based phenomena that he studied from a Social Identity perspective. In this research he focuses on processes in the private sphere (e.g., impression formation), the organizational sphere (e.g., communication and commitment / identification), and the public sphere (e.g., social identification and the hostile media effect). Martin Tanis published in journals in the field of Communication (e.g., Journal of Communication, Journal of Health Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Communications) as well as in Social Psychology (e.g., European Journal of Social Psychology, Group Dynamics, Group Processes and Interpersonal Relationships, Cyberpsychology and Behavior).

• Medium use in interpersonal communication
• (inter-)Group relations and group processes
• Computer Mediated Communication
• (online) Social support

Recent publications

Journal articles

• Tanis, M., & Beukeboom, C. (In press). Organizational Identification and the Communication of Identity: Effects of Message Characteristics on Cognitive and Affective Identification. British Journal of Social Psychology.
• Tanis, M., Das, E., & Fortgens-Sillmann, M. (2011). Finding care for the caregiver? Active participation in online health forums attenuates the negative effect of caregiver strain on wellbeing Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 36(1), 51-66.
• Tanis, M. (2008). Health-Related Online Forums: What's the Big Attraction. Journal of Health Communication, 13(7), 698-714. [link to article]
• Tanis, M., & Postmes, T. (2008). Cues to identity in online collaboration: Interpersonal or intragroup perceptions in dyadic interactions. Group Dynamics, 12(2), 96-111. [link to article]
• Buijzen, M., Rozendaal, E., Moorman, M., & Tanis, M. (2008). Parent versus child reports of parental advertising mediation: Exploring the meaning of agreement. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52(4), 509-525. [link to article]
• Jansz, J., & Tanis, M. (2007). The appeal of playing online first person shooter games. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 10(1), 133-136. [link to article]
• Tanis, M., & Postmes, T. (2007). Two faces of anonymity: Paradoxical effects of cues to identity in CMC. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 955-970. [link to article]
• Tanis, M., & Postmes, T. (2005). A social identity approach to trust: Interpersonal perception, group membership and trusting behaviour. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35(3), 413-424. [link]
• Tanis, M., & Postmes, T. (2003). Social cues and impression formation in CMC. Journal of Communication, 53(4), 676-693. [link]

Books

• Tanis, M. (2007). Online Social Support Groups. In A. Joinson, K. Y. A. McKenna, T. Postmes & U. D. Reips (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology (pp. 137-152). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [link to book]
• Postmes, T. & Tanis, M., & de Wit, B. (2001). Communication and commitment in organizations: A social identity approach. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 4(3). 227-246. [link]