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Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization
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“Observers were able to accurately infer the personality characteristics of the FB users in the study, suggesting that participants were expressing and communicating real personality rather than promoting idealized versions of themselves (Back et al., 2010).”
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“Furthermore, previous research has suggested populations for online studies and Facebook are quite representative [23], [24].”
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“By contrast, human observers can rely on a much broader array of contextual and semantic cues when inferring other people's personalities from their writing and/or websites (e.g., Back et al., 2010; Marcus, Machilek, & Schutz, 2006; Vazire & Gosling 2004).”
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“The results converge with other recent findings suggesting that, contrary to popular wisdom, people do not present themselves in an idealized and overly positive way online (Turkle, 1997), and maintain online identities that reflect the way they genuinely see themselves and are seen by others (Back et al., 2010; Vazire & Gosling, 2004).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Back, M. D., Stopfer, J. M., Vazire, S., Gaddis, S., Schmukle, S. C., Egloff, B., & Gosling, S. D.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- University of Münster (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Back, Mitja D.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-01-29
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 372-374
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2137351972
- Cited by
- 1,169
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 102 · 2019: 103 · 2018: 81 · 2017: 95 · 2016: 95 · 2015: 104 · 2014: 93 · 2013: 71 · 2012: 70
- FWCI
- 72.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Keywords
- Facebook profiles, personality, self-presentation, self-idealization, social media, self-concept, online self-presentation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Communication, Female, Germany, Humans, Male, Motivation, Personality, Self Concept, Self Disclosure, Social Behavior, Social Support, Truth Disclosure, United States, Internet, Feedback, Psychological, Friends, Young Adult
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