Personality in cyberspace: personal Web sites as media for personality expressions and impressions.

By Bernd Marcus, Franz Machilek, Astrid Schütz. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Relationships among Attachment Style, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competency, and Facebook Use (2012, background): “Investigating the relationship between Big Five personality characteristics and personal web page owners, Marcus, Machilek, and Schutz (2006) found that site visitors judged some of the page owner‟s FFM personality traits accurately, as, for example, “Openness to Experience could be inferred from…”
Compensating for Low Topic Interest and Long Surveys (2007, result): “…difference, however, the present and earlier research on random samples of website owners show that this group differs only moderately from the general population on standard sociodemographic variables as well as a broad range of personality variables (Machilek et al., 2004; Marcus et al., 2006).”
Narcissism and Social Networking Web Sites (2008, background): “Past research has shown that personality can be accurately detected from Web pages and that this detection is linked to specific Web page content (e.g., Marcus et al., 2006; Vazire & Gosling, 2004).”
Who's Posting Facebook Faux Pas? A Cross-Cultural Examination of Personality Differences (2010, unknown): “While studying personality with regard to personal web sites, Marcus et al. (2006) found a significant correlation between ‘openness to experience’ and acquisitive self-monitoring, indicating that those who score high on this dimension demonstrate an ability or concern in modifying their behavior to”
The Role of Friends’ Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep? (2008, methodology): “…Gosling et al.'s (2002) use of Brunswik's lens beyond physical space to include Web space, that is, by using the lens approach to study how observers make personality judgments about target individuals based upon the targets' personal Web pages (Marcus et al., 2006; Vazire & Gosling, 2004).”
Social Media in Employee-Selection-Related Decisions (2016, background): “A few nonorganizational, social psychology studies found smaller correlations between self-ratings of personality and impressions taken from websites (e.g., Back, Stopfer, Varize, Gaddis, Schmukle, & Gosling, 2010; Marcus et al., 2006).”
Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information (2011, unknown): “The deliberate (e.g., identity claims) and inadvertent (e.g., behavioral residue) processes 16 by which personality traits become expressed in physical, 17 aural, 18 social, 19 and virtual environments 20,21 could play the same role in OSNs.”
Social Media for Selection? Validity and Adverse Impact Potential of a Facebook-Based Assessment (2016, background): “Similarly, Marcus, Machilek, and Schütz (2006) reported a mean self-observer correlation of .20 across the Big Five based on the average ratings from five undergraduate raters (also see Back et al., 2010).”
A Review of Personality Research in the Tourism and Hospitality Context (2010, background): “Marcus, Machilek, and Schutz (2006 ) examine the personalities of personal website owners and the content of their websites; empirical results indicate that the perception of a website owner's personality can easily be influenced by website content and design.”
Impression Management 2.0 (2008, background): “This is in line with findings by Marcus et al. (2006), even though they used a different scale for the assessment of self-esteem (Schütz & Sellin, 2006).”
Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior (2013, background): “Similarly, it has been shown that personality can be predicted based on the contents of personal Web sites (16), music collections (17), properties of Facebook or Twitter profiles such as the number of friends or the density of friendship networks (18–21), or language used by their users (22).”
Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion (2017, background): “For example, people’s personality profiles have been predicted from personal websites (11), blogs (12), Twitter messages (13), Facebook profiles (10, 14–16), and Instagram pictures (17).”