Proliferating definitions and incompatible measures of social presence have produced a confounding situation that prevents a coherent research field¶

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q2 i? The many different definitions and measures of social presence, which differ in number and nature of dimensions and often assess correlates rather than 'realness', make comparing empirical findings hard or impossible and cause a jingle-fallacy. → Karel Kreijns 2022

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Karel Kreijns 2022¶

Karel Kreijns, Kate Xu, Joshua Weidlich. (2022). Social Presence: Conceptualization and Measurement. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09623-8

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The review's synthesis of the measurement literature (Table 2) argues that measures differ in dimensionality and content, and that even shared dimensions may assess different things, creating 'a potential jingle-fallacy' when conceptually different constructs bear the same label.

"the different measures for social presence make it hard or even impossible to compare the various findings of empirical research using one of these measures because they differ in the number of dimensions as well as what these dimensions are"

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