Showing Off? Human Mobility and the Interplay of Traits, Self-Disclosure, and Facebook Check-Ins

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 437-457

  Wang, Shaojung Sharon ^a   Stefanone, Michael A ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

exhibitionism; extraversion; Facebook; LBS; location check in; narcissism; self disclosure; smartphone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879526048     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439313481424     Document Type: Article

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