Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization

By M. Back, Juliane M. Stopfer, Simine Vazire, Sam Gaddis, S. Schmukle, Boris Egloff, Samuel D. Gosling. Psychology Science, 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “On the one hand, SNSs may protect from mental illness, as they support and enable social interaction and connection [1,4], and allow users to reflect aspects of their identity and express emotion that may be relevant to their lived experience [5].”
Sharenting and the extended self: self-representation in parents’ Instagram presentations of their children (2020, methodology): “…product of other parents’ actions, and while these digital acts of self-presentation may provide somewhat reliable readings of the backstage self (Back et al., 2010) and even recursively influence parents’ behaviors in real life (see Belk, 2013), the intentions of the users were not assessed…”
User-generated-content versus marketing-generated-content: personality and content influence on traveler’s behavior (2018, background): “Back et al. (2010) also confirmed that personality can be predicted by the way individuals present themselves on SNS profiles.”
Consumers' use of brands to reflect their actual and ideal selves on Facebook (2012, background): “Recent research on Facebook examined the conveyed personalities of users' profiles to test the validities of the idealized virtual identity hypothesis (that Facebook users' profiles display idealized information that does not reflect their personalities) and the extended real-life hypothesis (that F”
Personality and patterns of Facebook usage (2012, background): “Moreover, it was shown that a Facebook profile reflects the actual personality of its owner rather than an idealized projection of desirable traits [3].”
Selfie posting behaviors are associated with narcissism among men (2015, positive): “Common usages of social media, and its relative novelty, are related to an emergence of new psychological and social phenomena (Back et al., 2010; Błachnio, Przepiórka, & Rudnicka, 2013; Houghton & Joinson, 2010; Nadkarni & Hofmann, 2012; Ross et al., 2009), some of which have yet to be thoroughly i”
The Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media (2018, neutral): “…(e.g., name, gender, home city, education, etc.) and what they like (e.g., movies, etc.) on their profile page and through posting their photos, videos, opinions, and experiences (Back et al., 2010; Gosling et al. 2011; Java et al. 2007; Konrath et al. 2011; Naaman et al. 2010; Yee et al. 2011).”
I Like What She’s #Endorsing: The Impact of Female Social Media Influencers’ Perceived Sincerity, Consumer Envy, and Product Type (2020, background): “…research has shown that individuals express their true, everyday personalities on social networking sites, which can be discerned by a thirdperson observer through various cues from a profile including photos, vocabulary usage, and online interactions with others (Back et al. 2010).”
Make new friends or keep the old: Gender and personality differences in social networking use (2012, background): “Perceptions of individuals based on their profiles have also been shown to be quite accurate in reflecting their personality (Back, Schmukle, & Egloff, 2008; Back et al., 2010; Buffardi & Campbell, 2008).”
Selfies and personality: Who posts self-portrait photographs? (2016, neutral): “Past studies have analyzed a wide range of behaviors related to online self-presentation, including choice of Facebook profile picture (Back et al., 2010) and other online photo-sharing behaviors (Gosling, Augustine, Vazire, Holtzman, & Gaddis, 2011; Ong et al., 2011; Stefanone, Lackaff, & Rosen,…”
Who does what on Facebook? Age, sex, and relationship status as predictors of Facebook use (2012, background): “Why men acted this way is not clear, since it flies in the face of the well-replicated finding than men are more interested in casual sex than women even if they are in a committed relationship (Back et al., 2010; Buss, 2012).”
Predicting Personality Using Novel Mobile Phone-Based Metrics (2013, background): “For example, some researchers have shown that pattern in the use of social media such as Facebook or Twitter can be used to predict users’ personalities [6,7,8].”
When Posting About Products on Social Media Backfires: The Negative Effects of Consumer Identity Signaling on Product Interest (2019, background): “Social media enables consumers to transmit social information; thus, a key motivation on social media may be to share self-relevant content that signals identity (Back et al. 2010; Reed et al. 2012; Swann 1983; Toubia and Stephen 2013).”
You are what you tweet: Personality expression and perception on Twitter (2012, methodology): “…expression have been found in daily conversations (Mehl, Gosling, & Pennebaker, 2006), bedrooms and offices (Gosling et al., 2002), Facebook profiles (Back et al., 2010; Gosling, Augustine, Vazire, Holtzman, & Gaddis, 2011), and virtual world activities (Yee, Harris, Jabon, & Bailenson, 2011).”
Online Personal Branding: Processes, Challenges, and Implications (2011, result): “Such findings parallel recent work that reveals that realistic (opposed to overly idealistic) identity representations are common practice for social networking site users (Back et al. 2010).”