The dark side of Facebook: Semantic representations of status updates predict the Dark Triad of personality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-74

  Garcia, Danilo ^a,b   Sikström, Sverker ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dark Triad; Extraversion; Facebook; Latent Semantic Analysis; Machiavellianism; Narcissism; Neuroticism; Personality; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901280331     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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