Self-Presentation in Online Personals

By Jennifer L. Gibbs, Nicole B. Ellison, Rebecca Heino. Communication Research, 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Separating Fact From Fiction: An Examination of Deceptive Self-Presentation in Online Dating Profiles (2008, positive): “The more online daters desired a face-to-face relationship, the more honest they reported being in their online interactions ( Gibbs et al., 2006 ).”
Precursors and Underlying Processes of Adolescents' Online Self-Disclosure: Developing and Testing an “Internet-Attribute-Perception” Model (2006, positive): “The enhanced self-disclosure in CMC is often explained with Walther's (1996) hyperpersonal communication theory (eg, Gibbs, Ellison, & Heino, 2006 ; McKenna & Bargh, 2000 ; Peter & Valkenburg, 2006 ).”
Managing Impressions Online: Self-Presentation Processes in the Online Dating Environment (2006, background): “Exploring the question of whether participants created a playful or fantastical identity online (Stone, 1996; Turkle, 1995) or were more open and honest (Rubin, 1975), we found that the online dating participants we spoke with claimed that they attempted to present an accurate self-representation on”
Consumer adoption of technological innovations: Effects of psychological and functional barriers in a lack of content versus a presence of content situation (2010, background): “For example, while online dating sites in their early days were considered to be for the “socially deprived” only, they now have become a way to distinguish the online dater from the masses, by breaking with traditions and exploring more adventurous roads ( Gibbs et al. , 2006”