Posing personality: Is it possible to enact the Big Five traits in photographs?

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-21

  Leikas, Sointu ^a   Verkasalo, Markku ^a   Lönnqvist, Jan Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Big Five; Impression management; Person perception; Personality; Photographs; Posing; Self presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870182431     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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