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Effects Of Perceiver / Target Gender And Social Networking Presence On Web-Based Impression Formation, T. R. Hill, Leslie J. Albert, S. Venkatsubramanyan

Leslie J. Albert

As the Web has expanded in its use and utility it has fundamentally changed the way in which individuals gather and use information. This paper suggests that those changes give rise to tangible and significant effects in the impressions people form of others using Web-based information. This study explores the impacts of perceiver gender, target gender, and social networking presence on subjects’ perceptions of potential teammates otherwise unknown to them as revealed by ratings they assign based only on search engine results. Experiments reveal differences in how male and female perceivers view others’ social networking activity in general and suggest …