Impression management and formation on Facebook: A lens model approach

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 958-982

  Hall, Jeffrey A ^a   Pennington, Natalie ^a   Lueders, Allyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b East Texas Baptist University   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Lens model; Online impression formation; Online impression management; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927621897     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813495166     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Antheunis ML and Schouten AP (2011) The effects of other-generated and system-generated cues on adolescents’ perceived attractiveness on social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 16: 391-406.
2. Bernieri FJ, Gillis JS, Davis JM, et al. (1996) Dyad rapport and the accuracy of its judgment across situations: a lens model analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 71: 110-129.
3. Brunswik E (1956) Perception and the Representative Design of Psychological Experiments. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
4. Burgoon JK, Blair JP and Strom RE (2008) Cognitive biases and nonverbal cue availability in detecting deception. Human Communication Research 34: 572-599.
5. DeAndrea DC and Walther JB (2011) Attributions for inconsistencies between online and offline self-presentations. Communication Research 38: 805-825.
6. Ellison NB, Hancock JT and Toma CL (2012) Profile as promise: a framework for conceptualizing veracity in online dating self-presentations. New Media & Society 14(1): 45-62.
7. Ellison NB, Steinfield C and Lampe C (2007) The benefits of Facebook ‘friends’: social capital and college students’ use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 1143-1168.
8. FacebookNewsroom (2012) Availableat: http://newsroom.fb.com/content/default.aspx?NewsAreaId= 22 (accessed 17 April 2012).
9. Gifford R (2006) Personality and nonverbal behavior: a complex conundrum. In: Manusov V and Patterson ML (eds) Handbook of Nonverbal Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp.159-179.
10. Gonzales AL and Hancock JT (2008) Identity shift in computer-mediated environments. Media Psychology 11: 167-185.
11. Gosling SD, Augustine AA, Vazire S, et al. (2011) Manifestations of personality in online social networks: self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networks. 14: 483-488. \
12. Gosling SD, Ko SJ, Mannarelli T, et al. (2002) Room with a cue: personality judgments based on offices and bedrooms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 82: 379-398.
13. Hart RP and Carroll C (2011) DICTION 6.0 [Computer software]. Available at: http://www.dictionsoftware. com/index.php (accessed 06 October 2011).
14. Hayes AF and Krippendorff K (2007) Answering the call for a standard reliability measure for coding data. Communication Methods and Measures 1: 77-89.
15. John OP, Naumann LP and Soto CJ (2008) Paradigm shift to the integrative Big-Five trait taxonomy: history, measurement, and conceptual issues. In: John OP, Robins RW and Pervin AL (eds) Handbook of Personality. New York: Guilford Press, pp.114-158.
16. Marcus B, Machilek F and Schutz A (2006) Personality in cyberspace: personal websites as media for personality expressions and impressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90: 1014-1031.
17. Stone AR (1995) The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
18. Tong ST, Van Der Heide B, Langwell L, et al. (2008) Too much of a good thing? The relationship between number of friends and interpersonal impressions on Facebook. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13: 531-549.
19. Utz S (2010) Show me your friends and I will tell you what type of a person you are: how one’s profile, number of friends, and type of friends influence impression formation on social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 15: 314-335.
20. Van Der Heide B, D’Angelo JD and Schumaker EM (2012) The effects of verbal versus photographic self-presentation on impression formation in Facebook. Journal of Communication 62: 98-116.
21. Vazire S and Gosling SD (2004) e-Perceptions: personality impressions based on personal websites. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 87: 123-132.
22. Walther JB and Parks MR (2002) Cues filtered out, cues filtered in: computer-mediated communication and relationships. In: Knapp ML and Daly JA (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp.529-563.
23. Walther JB, Van Der Heide B, Hamel LM, et al. (2009) Self-generated versus other-generated statements and impressions in computer-mediated communication: a test of warranting theory using Facebook. Communication Research 36: 229-253.
24. Walther JB, Van Der Heide B, Kim S-Y, et al. (2008) The role of friends’ appearance and behavior on evaluations of individuals on Facebook: are we known by the company we keep? Human Communication Research 34: 28-49.
25. Westerman D, Van Der Heide B, Klein KA, et al. (2008) How do people really seek information about others? Information seeking across internet and traditional communication channels. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13: 751-767.