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Is she the one? Personality judgments from online personal advertisements
Author(s) -
WEIDMAN AARON C.,
CHENG JOEY T.,
CHISHOLM CHANDRA,
TRACY JESSICA L.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/pere.12097
Subject(s) - psychology , agreeableness , extraversion and introversion , personality , social psychology , big five personality traits , emotionality , romance , reading (process) , linguistics , philosophy , psychoanalysis
The authors examined the linguistic cues that inform personality judgments from online personal advertisements, and whether these judgments are accurate. Advertisers reported their personality, and 2 sets of naïve judges—including one that was seeking a romantic partner—rated advertisers' personality after reading their ads. Judges' impressions of extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability—3 traits that are strongly desired in a romantic partner—were influenced by particular lexical cues, such as word count, emotionality, and profanity. Both sets of judges formed accurate impressions for extraversion, but not other traits. These findings suggest that online daters use linguistic cues to judge the desirability of a potential romantic partner's personality, but that the impressions driven by these cues are not always accurate.