"On the Internet No One Knows I'm an Introvert": Extroversion, Neuroticism, and Internet Interaction

By Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Galit Wainapel, Shaul Fox. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2002

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Influence of Personality on Social Participation in Learning Environments (2006, result): “Participants and non-participants in the WBIE were not distinguished by any of the five factors of personality, contrary to research results in non-academic contexts which emphasized the advantage of Internet environment for introverts (Amichai-Hamburger et al., 2002).”
Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users' personality and social media use (2010, background): “Early studies of individuals’ online activities found those high in extraversion and low in neuroticism were not as heavy Internet users as their more introverted, more neurotic counterparts (Amichai-Hamburger et al., 2002).”
Psychological Predictors of Young Adults' Use of Social Networking Sites (2009, unknown): “In addition, the study aims to investigate whether these intrapersonal characteristics predict young adults’ addictive tendencies toward the use of SNSs.”
The Faces of Facebookers: Investigating Social Enhancement and Social Compensation Hypotheses; Predicting FacebookTM and Offline Popularity from Sociability and Self-Esteem, and Mapping the Meanings of Popularity with Semantic Networks (2008, background): “Rather than making strategic moves to enhance popularity, some low self-esteem users may just feel more comfortable expressing their true selves online rather than offline (Amichai-Hamburger et al., 2002; McKenna et al., 2002; Bargh et al., 2002).”
Current Perspectives on Personality and Internet Use (2010, methodology): “Using the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI—Eysenck & Eysenck, 1964) to investigate personality types and Internet and chat room use, Anolli et al. (2005) found that higher scorers of E, recruited through chat rooms, tended to spend less time online and used chat significantly less than lower score”
The influence of personality on Facebook usage, wall postings, and regret (2012, background): “Early studies found individuals high on neuroticism were heavier Internet users than extraverts (Amichai-Hamburger et al., 2002; Correa et al., 2010).”
Personality, motives and metacognitions as predictors of problematic Facebook Use in university students (2016, background): “First, as reviewed above, a number of personality traits have been found to be associated with different patterns of Facebook use and with PFU (e.g., Amichai-Hamburger et al., 2002; Kuss & Griffiths, 2011; Marshall et al., 2015).”
Online Social Networks and Insights into Marketing Communications (2007, background): “(2001) and Amichai-Hamburger et al. (2002) suggested that introverts are more comfortable using the internet and more likely to spend a higher amount of time on the net compared with extroverts.”