Being popular in online social networks: How agentic, communal, and creativity traits relate to judgments of status and liking

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 592-598

  Stopfer, Juliane M ^a   Egloff, Boris ^b   Nestler, Steffen ^a   Back, Mitja D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agency; Communion; Internet cyberpsychology; Lens model; Liking; Online social networks; Personality; Popularity; Status; Zero acquaintance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879425670     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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