Rate My Professor Amr Soror

Amr Soror is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at the College of Business and Economics, California State University, Fullerton, where he joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in fall 2015 and was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. He earned a Ph.D. in information systems from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in 2015, an MBA in information technology and enterprise integration from Old Dominion University in Virginia, and an undergraduate degree in business from Alexandria University in 2003. Soror teaches a range of courses at the intersection of information systems and business analytics, including ISDS 361A – Business Analytics I, ISDS 551 – Information Resources and IT Project Management, and ISDS 435 – Integrated Enterprise Information Systems. His teaching interests span topics bridging technology, decision sciences, and organizational applications.

Soror's research focuses on the intersection of information systems, psychology, sociology, and business, with emphasis on self-regulation in IT-related phenomena such as addictive smartphone usage, negative consequences of mobile phone habits, cognitive biases in IT continued usage intentions, habituation and sensitization in social media use, and knowledge diffusion in social media networks. His publications include "Good Habits Gone Bad: Explaining Negative Consequences Associated with the Use of Mobile Phones from a Dual-Systems Perspective" co-authored and published in the Information Systems Journal in 2015, "Exhaustion and Dependency: A Habituation–Sensitization Perspective on the Duality of Habit in Social Media Use" in 2021, "An Empirical Examination of Cognitive Absorption in a Computer-based Simulation Training Context" in 2019, "Why Do You Keep Doing That? The Biasing Effects of Mental States on IT Continued Usage Intentions" in 2017, "Diffusion of Knowledge in Social Media Networks: Effects of Reputation Mechanisms and Distribution of Knowledge Roles" in 2016, and "Addiction to Mobile Phone or Addiction through Mobile Phone?" in 2016. These works, drawing from surveys and theoretical models like dual-systems perspectives and social cognitive theory, have accumulated over 500 citations. Ongoing projects explore cognitive biases in IT use behavior, with prospective studies on fitness tracking devices and enterprise social media for organizational knowledge sharing.