Do Facebook profile pictures reflect user's personality?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 880-889

  Wu, Yen Chun Jim ^a   Chang, Wei Hung ^b   Yuan, Chih Hung ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Facebook; Personality; Profile picture

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; FACEBOOK; PERSONALITY; PROFILE PICTURE; SELF PRESENTATIONS; USER PERSONALITIES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84966862743     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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