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Personality and Social Contexts
Facebook; pictures; extraversion; conscientiousness; emotional; stability; profile
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Facebook Profiles And Usage As Indicators Of Personality, Erica Dawson
Facebook Profiles And Usage As Indicators Of Personality, Erica Dawson
Honors Projects in Applied Psychology
The online social networking website, Facebook, has greatly changed the way the world communicates. Face-to-face interactions have been replaced by wall posts, status updates and friends liking posts or leaving comments. This study looks at how certain cues on Facebook profiles relate to personality traits, specifically, extraversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability. Three hypotheses focused on profile photos and how frequently the users change their photo. I predicted that 1) extraversion scores would be higher for participants who use a party scene as their profile photo, 2) conscientiousness scores would be lower for these same participants, and 3) the emotional stability …