Impressions of World of Warcraft players' personalities based on their usernames: Interobserver consensus but no accuracy

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 599-603

  Graham, Lindsay T ^a   Gosling, Samuel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Consensus; Impression formation; Lens model; Massively multi player online role playing games (MMPORPGs); Personality judgments; Stereotypes; Virtual environments; World of warcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865742474     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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