Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information

By Samuel D. Gosling, Adam A. Augustine, Simine Vazire, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Sam Gaddis. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning (2017, background): “…it is possible to infer a person’s personality from his or her social media footprint—for example, his or her Facebook profile (Back et al., 2010; Gosling, Augustine, Vazire, Holtzman, & Gaddis, 2011), personal blog or website (Vazire & Gosling, 2004; Yarkoni, 2010), musical preferences…”
Self-presentation and belonging on Facebook: How personality influences social media use and motivations (2013, background): “…findings showing that although extraverts are more likely to replace their profile photograph and post photographs containing others, they are not more likely to post photographs of themselves alone, update their profile text, (Gosling et al., 2011) or post on their walls (Moore & McElroy, 2012).”
Predicting the Big 5 personality traits from digital footprints on social media: A meta-analysis (2018, neutral): “For instance, Gosling et al. (2011) reported separate e ﬀ ect sizes for di ﬀ erent Facebook activity statistics (e.g., number of friends, number of posts, etc.).”
LinkedIn as a new selection method: Psychometric properties and assessment approach (2018, background): “Extraverts tend to be more active and provide more information on social media (Gosling et al., 2011).”
Who does what on Facebook? Age, sex, and relationship status as predictors of Facebook use (2012, background): “Aside from narcissism, little is know about how useful personality is for predicting Facebook use, with opinions among researchers ranging from it being quite useful (Carpenter, Green, & LaFlam, 2011; Gosling et al., 2011) to being not very useful at all (Ross et al., 2009).”
Selfies and personality: Who posts self-portrait photographs? (2016, neutral): “Of the Big Five personality traits (McCrae & Costa, 2003), Gosling and collaborators (Gosling et al., 2011) found that an individual's level of extraversion best predicted both the frequency of adding photos of themselves and other people to their Facebook profile, and the frequency of replacing…”
Feeling Authentic on Social Media: Subjective Authenticity Across Instagram Stories and Posts (2021, result): “This is in line with research showing that users extend their actual personalities to SNS rather than idealize themselves (e.g., Back et al., 2010) and act according to their offline personality in SNS environments (e.g., Gosling et al., 2011).”
Personality and patterns of Facebook usage (2012, methodology): “al [15] , using both self-reported patterns of Facebook usage and actual Facebook profile features.”
The Big Five, Self-Esteem, and Narcissism as Predictors of the Topics People Write About in Facebook Status Updates (2015, background): “They tend to use Facebook less frequently than people who are lower in conscientiousness (Gosling et al., 2011), but when they do use it, conscientious individuals are diligent and discreet: they have more Facebook friends (AmichaiHamburger & Vinitzky, 2010), they avoid badmouthing people (Stoughton”