Do Instagram Profiles Accurately Portray Personality? An Investigation Into Idealized Online Self-Presentation

Harris, Elspbeth; Bardey, Aurore

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00871

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“…The fact that the ideal photographs had the best attention scores and that the acne on the girl's face registered the highest peak of emotion might support the conclusion that the younger audience remains somewhat superficial in its perception of beauty stereotypes, with greater intensity among teenagers and men toward the body nude (De-Perthuis, and Findlay, 2019;Harris, and Bardey, 2019).…”

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Neuromarketing as a strategic tool for predicting how Instagramers have an influence on the personal identity of adolescents and young people in Spain

Viniegra

Núñez-Gómez

Tur‐Viñes

2020

Heliyon

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Instagram is the fastest growing social network and has an audience that shares lifestyles related to their interest in beauty and fashion. However, the exposure of adolescents to images that promote the slender beauty ideal can lead to body dissatisfaction, as they place a lot of importance on the likes and comments they receive regarding the comparison of their appearance with that of other users. The popularity of influencers and their opinion leadership has resulted in the convergence of a given body image with the promotion of products and brands. Through the use of neuromarketing techniques -attention through eye tracking, and emotion using galvanic skin response-, the objective of this research is to determine the cognitive perception that Spanish adolescents and young people have of the stimuli transmitted by influencers on Instagram, surpassing classic content analysis of social networks and offering the innovative technique of registering unconscious reactions of the audience, both toward the body image as well as toward the brands promoted by influencers who are akin to the audience. The results suggest that adolescents place greater attention and emotional intensity on the nude body appeal of influencers compared to young adults, and show only scarce interest in brands.

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“…Instagram users are exposed daily to the ideal presentation of people who publish their photographs (Harris and Bardey, 2019). Fashion photography has historically conveyed an ideal of beauty through images that seek perfection, and today most fashion influencers have continued with this ideal (De-Perthuis and Findlay, 2019).…”

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Neuromarketing as a strategic tool for predicting how Instagramers have an influence on the personal identity of adolescents and young people in Spain

Viniegra

Núñez-Gómez

Tur‐Viñes

2020

Heliyon

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“…However, it must be noted that intended self-presentation does not always match audiences' actual perceptions. For instance, Harris and Bardey (2019) discovered that the way observers perceived personalities of Instagram users differed from how those users thought they were presenting themselves, thus demonstrating the discrepancy between the desired and actual self-presentation. The aforementioned work demonstrates that self-presentation and self-promotion constitute one of the most common drivers of social media posting, and specifically photo sharing.…”

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Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing

Stsiampkouskaya

Joinson

Piwek

et al. 2021

Social Media + Society

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The present research explores the effects of imagined audiences, emotions, and feedback expectations on social media photo sharing. We focus on the audience-oriented approach to sharing and on how discrepancies between expected and received feedback might shape photo sharing behaviors. Twenty-four participants were interviewed using scenario-based semi-structured interview method. The participants were asked to develop an imagined story about two fictional individuals who decided to share a photo on their social media. The story was guided by questions about the characters’ motivations and incentives to post and explored three alternative scenarios representing the reception of usual feedback, better than usual feedback, and the absence of expected feedback, respectively. The results indicate that individuals often adopt their audience’s perspective when choosing a photo to post, and consider whether the chosen image would evoke sufficient interest to induce feedback. The participants believed that emotional photos engaged their audience and motivated the viewers to provide feedback. Furthermore, the study identified and analyzed the concept of feedback expectations. When received feedback exceeded the expectations, individuals experienced happiness. However, the replication of successful content was considered appropriate only if accompanied by a suitable caption and posted after a period of time. When received feedback failed to meet their expectations, individuals felt disconnected from their audiences and experienced disappointment. They employed rationalization and feedback dismissal as coping mechanisms and displayed two common behavioral responses to unsuccessful feedback; they attempted to repost the photo avoiding previous mistakes, and they changed the style of content they posted.

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“…Self-presentation is a behavioural action related to individual awareness to build the desired impression on other individuals [10]. Instagram users show their self-presentation by sharing photos, videos, interesting articles or sentences, and also show their personal identity [11]. Making self-presentation through Instagram indicates a relationship established by CMC (computer-mediated communication), not by FTF (Face to Face) [12].…”

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Youth Virtue Self-Esteem and Positive Presentation in Social Media Instagram

Perdini¹,

Hutahaean²

2021

Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Mag

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This research departs from the phenomenon of self-existence or also called selfexpression among users of social media Instagram. This phenomenon can cause problems, one example is data leakage, which can occur if one shows oneself too often on Instagram social media. The data leaked is usually misused by other parties for their interests. The purpose of this study is to analyze the variables of self-esteem and self-presentation related to this phenomenon, especially to find out the forms of self-esteem and self-presentation that users do on Instagram. The research subjects included 110 teenage Instagram users involved based on their willingness to fill out the self-esteem and self-presentations questionnaires. This study uses variance analysis techniques towards the data, particularly to compare the average total score on variable aspects. The results of the analysis show that the four aspects of self-esteem have different average values and that virtue is the most sought-after form of self-esteem. Likewise, the comparison of the five aspects of selfpresentation shows that the positive one is the dominant form performed by the subjects. This research is expected to provide theoretical benefits in the field of social psychology, and in practical terms, to provide an overview of self-presentation on Instagram.

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Do Instagram Profiles Accurately Portray Personality? An Investigation Into Idealized Online Self-Presentation

Cited by 46 publications

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Neuromarketing as a strategic tool for predicting how Instagramers have an influence on the personal identity of adolescents and young people in Spain

Neuromarketing as a strategic tool for predicting how Instagramers have an influence on the personal identity of adolescents and young people in Spain

Imagined Audiences, Emotions, and Feedback Expectations in Social Media Photo Sharing

Youth Virtue Self-Esteem and Positive Presentation in Social Media Instagram

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