Premium
Self‐descriptions on LinkedIn: Recruitment or friendship identity?
Author(s) -
Garcia Danilo,
Cloninger Kevin M.,
Granjard Alexandre,
MolanderSöderholm Kristian,
Amato Clara,
Sikström Sverker
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
psych journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2046-0260
pISSN - 2046-0252
DOI - 10.1002/pchj.210
Subject(s) - friendship , identity (music) , psychology , semantics (computer science) , world wide web , social psychology , internet privacy , computer science , aesthetics , art , programming language
We used quantitative semantics to find clusters of words in LinkedIn users’ self‐descriptions to an employer or a friend. Some of these clusters discriminated between worker and friend conditions (e.g., flexible vs. caring ) and between LinkedIn users with high and low education (e.g., analytical vs. messy ).