Dr. Anita Blanchard's Homepage

Associate Professor of Psychology and Organization Science

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For Fall 2008, I am teaching:

	Psych 2171: Introduction to I/O Psychology
	OS 8205/Psychology 6205 : Field and Lab Based Quantitative Research Methods

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Research

Here is a my Vita, updated August 2008. My current research interests include the following. If you see a paper you'd like and I don't have a link to it, feel free to email me! My contact information is below.

	Sense of Community in Organizations and Virtual Communities
	Blanchard, A. L. (2008) Testing a model of sense of virtual community, Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 2107-2123. Blanchard, A. L. (2008) Sense of Virtual Community: Definition, Antecedents and Outcomes, In S. Kelsey & Kirk St. Amant (Eds) Handbook of Computer-Mediated Communication Research. Blanchard, A. L. (2008) The definition, antecedents and outcomes of successful virtual communities. In N. Kock (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of e-Collaboration. Blanchard, A. L. (2007). Developing a sense of virtual community measure, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 10, (6), 827-830. Blanchard, A. L. (2006). Listserv implementation and sense of community: The relationships with increased knowledge and face-to-face interaction. International Journal of e-Collaboration, 2(2), 27-45.. Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2004). The Experienced "Sense" of a Virtual Community: Characteristics and Processes. The Data Base for Advanced in Information Systems, 35 (1), 64-71. Blanchard, A. L. (2004) Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying sense of community in the Julie/Julia Project. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and Culture. L. Gurak et al (Eds). Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2001). Sense of Virtual Community--Maintaining the Sense of Belonging , Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science , *Nominated for best conference paper*. Preliminary results from the Julie/Julia Project research. Preliminary results from Babycenter.com
	Models of Successful Virtual Communities
	Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2007). Technology and Community Behavior in Online Environments In C. Steinfield, B. T. Pentland, M. Ackerman, & N. Contractor (Eds). Communities and Technology 2007: Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference, Michigan State University, Springer. Blanchard, A. L. (2004) Virtual behavior settings: An application of behavior settings theories to virtual communities, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 9(2). Research Report for 2003 Listserv and Newsgroup Sense of Community Study (web version) Research report (MS Word Version) How listserv participations affects attachment to the organization (Presented at SIOP in Orlando, FL)
	Cyberloafing
	Blanchard, A. L., & Henle, C. A. (2008) Correlates of different forms of cyberloafing: The role of norms and external locus of control. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 1067-1084.. Henle, C. A., & Blanchard, A. L. (2008) Predicting cyberloafing at work: The relationship between work stressors, organizational sanctions, and cyberloafing. Journal of Managerial Issues 20(3), 383-400..
	Social Capital and Virtual Communities
	Blanchard, A. (2003) The Effects of Dispersed Virtual Communities on Face-to-Face Social Capital. In M. Huysman and V. Wulf (Eds.) Social Capital and Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Blanchard, A. L. & Horan, T. (1998) Social Capital and Virtual Communities, Social Science Computer Review, 16, 293-307.
	Virtual Mentoring
	Ensher, E. A., Huen, C., Blanchard, A. (2003). Online Mentoring and Computer-Mediated Communication: New Directions in Research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 63, 264-288. Mentoring and its effects on SOC and OC.