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Whitty, Monica T., Doodson, James, Creese, Sadie and Hodges, Duncan (2017) A picture tells a thousand words : what Facebook and Twitter images convey about our personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 133 . pp. 109-114. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.050 ISSN 0191-8869.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.050
Abstract
Researchers have questioned whether there is a relationship between personality and patterns of online self-presentation. This paper examined, more specifically, whether personality predicts profile choices as well as image choice behaviour on two different SNSs: Twitter and Facebook. We found that personality does, to some extent, predict choices regarding profile images; however, not always in the direction we predicted and results differed across sites. We found that participants who scored higher on conscientiousness and lower on extraversion were more likely to change their profile image. Introverts were more likely than extraverts to: update their profile images and use a photograph of themselves in preference to an avatar. Individuals who scored high on conscientiousness were more likely to update their profile images compared with those who scored low on this scale. We conclude that personality can predict some image choices and behaviours that might be useful for future work on authentication and identification, although other predictor variables are potentially also important when considering the types of individual characteristics which might predict online behaviour on SNSs.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Facebook (Firm) -- Psychology, Twitter (Firm) -- Psychology, Social media -- Psychology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Personality and Individual Differences | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0191-8869 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 15 October 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 133 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 109-114 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.050 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 May 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 May 2017 | ||||||||
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