Personality Assessment Through the Situational and Behavioral 					Features of Instagram Photos

Cooper, Alysha; Blake, Andrew B.; Pauletti, Rachel E; Cooper, Patrick J; Sherman, Ryne A.; Lee, Daniel I.

doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000596

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“… Kim and Kim (2019) associated Big Five user profiles with color use (on Instagram) and identified complex color relations with agreeableness, gender, loneliness, or extraversion. There are now various studies aiming to correlate photos in social media with personality ( Lay and Ferwerda, 2018 ; Cooper et al, 2020 ; Rodriguez et al, 2021 ) but these reveal little about the features that determine experienced beauty of MPP. Thus, it is still an open question how these kinds of findings can be informative regarding beauty and aesthetic appeal of MPP.…”

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Swipes and Saves: A Taxonomy of Factors Influencing Aesthetic Assessments and Perceived Beauty of Mobile Phone Photographs

Leder

Hakala²,

Peltoketo³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Digital images taken by mobile phones are the most frequent class of images created today. Due to their omnipresence and the many ways they are encountered, they require a specific focus in research. However, to date, there is no systematic compilation of the various factors that may determine our evaluations of such images, and thus no explanation of how users select and identify relatively “better” or “worse” photos. Here, we propose a theoretical taxonomy of factors influencing the aesthetic appeal of mobile phone photographs. Beyond addressing relatively basic/universal image characteristics, perhaps more related to fast (bottom-up) perceptual processing of an image, we also consider factors involved in the slower (top-down) re-appraisal or deepened aesthetic appreciation of an image. We span this taxonomy across specific types of picture genres commonly taken—portraits of other people, selfies, scenes and food. We also discuss the variety of goals, uses, and contextual aspects of users of mobile phone photography. As a working hypothesis, we propose that two main decisions are often made with mobile phone photographs: (1) Users assess images at a first glance—by swiping through a stack of images—focusing on visual aspects that might be decisive to classify them from “low quality” (too dark, out of focus) to “acceptable” to, in rare cases, “an exceptionally beautiful picture.” (2) Users make more deliberate decisions regarding one’s “favorite” picture or the desire to preserve or share a picture with others, which are presumably tied to aspects such as content, framing, but also culture or personality, which have largely been overlooked in empirical research on perception of photographs. In sum, the present review provides an overview of current focal areas and gaps in research and offers a working foundation for upcoming research on the perception of mobile phone photographs as well as future developments in the fields of image recording and sharing technology.

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Swipes and Saves: A Taxonomy of Factors Influencing Aesthetic Assessments and Perceived Beauty of Mobile Phone Photographs

Leder

Hakala²,

Peltoketo³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Nowadays, many people focus on, and are successful at, engaging with audiences that extend far beyond their personal friends and family members. With this plethora of information about others widely accessible, social scientists have taken interest in this phenomenon, and use social media platforms to make connections to various aspects of psychology, assess personality (Cooper et al, 2020), and answer questions about who uses social media (Ruths & Pfeffer, 2014;Sigala & Chalkiti, 2015). Among some questions that remain are, who are the people that become successful at engaging audiences through social media?…”

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Social Media Use in Emerging Adults: Investigating the Relationship With Social Media Addiction and Social Behavior

Larson¹

2021

PsiChiJournal

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In the 21st century, use of online communication has skyrocketed, and this is particularly true for young people who have grown up in the age of the smartphone. In the world of online communication, adolescents and young adults especially seem to gravitate toward social media. The present study examined a mediational model wherein social media use in emerging adults predicts social media addiction through altered social behaviors, including face-to-face interactions, communication apprehension, and social skill deficits. More than 100 undergraduate students reported on their social media use and social behaviors via an online questionnaire. Contrary to expectations, social media use was only significantly correlated with social skills deficits, r(108) = .204, p = .017, and social media addiction, r(108) = .495, p < .001. Face-to-face interactions, communication apprehension, and social skills deficits did not function as mediators of the relationship between social media use and addiction and had no significant correlations with social media addiction. A modified mediation model is proposed, wherein impoverished face-to-face behavior and communication apprehension predict social skills deficits and those deficits predict social media addiction only when social media use is high.

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“…Surveys will continue to be the dominant method of data collection in personality in the near term, but the increasing adoption of more passive assessment techniques suggests this dominance may not last. Examples of these new methods include digital footprint data collected from social media, electronic health records, and passive sensor data (e.g., Cooper et al, 2020;Harari et al, 2020;Wiernik et al, 2020;Hall & Matz, 2020;Stachl, Au et al, 2020;Tay et al, 2020). These methods may enable the evaluation of new considerations -such as the transmission of covert signals (i.e., information signals that can be accurately transmitted and received by intended INFORMATION THEORY IN PERSONALITY targets but not by unintended targets; Smaldino, Flamson, & McElreath [2018]) -and new challenges (thorough discussions of these are provided by Girard & Cohn [2016] and Harari, Müller, Aung, & Rentfrow [2017]).…”

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A role for information theory in personality modeling, assessment, and judgment

Condon

Mõttus

2021

Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations

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Claude Shannon's groundbreaking work on information theory (Shannon, 1948a) was published just as the field of psychological testing was reaching its potential. Many of the fundamental underpinnings of psychological testing theory were proposed in this same era and the application of these ideas over the ensuing decades has greatly informed our understanding across numerous psychological domains, including individual differences in personality, cognitive abilities, interests, and much more. While the prospect of integrating information theory into psychological assessment was initially received with great enthusiasm, it was quickly and definitively dismissed by Lee Cronbach (1955a), mainly on the grounds that it was incompatible with the practical demands of psychological testing (e.g., limited testing time, relatively small samples). In this chapter, we reconsider Cronbach's rationale in light of recent technological advancements brought about by the "information age," and propose that re-introducing information-theoretic approaches to psychological assessment can advance our knowledge of personality, person-perception, and personality assessment. We conclude by providing several examples of research applications that have already invoked an information theory approach to assessment.

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Personality Assessment Through the Situational and Behavioral Features of Instagram Photos

Cited by 15 publications

References 52 publications

Swipes and Saves: A Taxonomy of Factors Influencing Aesthetic Assessments and Perceived Beauty of Mobile Phone Photographs

Swipes and Saves: A Taxonomy of Factors Influencing Aesthetic Assessments and Perceived Beauty of Mobile Phone Photographs

Social Media Use in Emerging Adults: Investigating the Relationship With Social Media Addiction and Social Behavior

A role for information theory in personality modeling, assessment, and judgment

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