Less effortful thinking leads to more social networking? the associations between the use of social network sites and personality traits

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1265-1271

  Zhong, Bu ^a   Hardin, Marie ^a   Sun, Tao ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

ICT innovativeness; Media multitasking; Need for cognition; Personality; Social media; Social network site

Indexed keywords

INNOVATIVENESS; MEDIA MULTITASKING; NEED FOR COGNITION; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION; MULTITASKING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952193502     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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