The effect of mobile phone e-mailing on young people's social tolerance was investigated by analyzing survey data of high school students in Japan. The results show that mobile phone e-mailing had a positive promoting effect on the homogeneity and a negative effect on the heterogeneity of personal networks. This in turn had a negative effect on social tolerance toward others. Mobile phone e-mailing enables students to select homogeneous others as companions of communication and thus brings a bias of homogeneity into their personal networks. This homogeneity bias in turn had a negative effect on the development of social tolerance in the socialization process by reducing the chance of interaction with heterogeneous others.
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Kobayashi, T., & Ikeda, K. (2007). The effect of mobile phone e-mailing in socialization in adolescents: Focusing on the homogeneity and heterogeneity of personal networks and tolerance. Research in Social Psychology, 23(1), 82–94.
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