Accurate Personality Perception On Social Network Sites

Personality perception means the process of perceivers make a personality judgments and evaluations of others based on certain cues.The accuracy of personality judgments can be defined as the correspondence between how perceivers judge the personality characteristics of targets and how targets:"really" are concerning these personality characteristics.Perceiving other’s characteristics and personality accurately is an important social skill.It’s common that newly acquaintances friend each other on Social Network Sites first and maintain old friendships by it.This thesis’purposes aimed to discover the possibility and the degree of accurate personality judgments on Social Network Sites and to explore the influence of cue valence and evolutionary motive to accuracy.Using lens model and social accuracy model,three studies were designed for undergraduate and graduate students.The main conclusions of this thesis were as followed.1.Participates can accurately perceive weibo users’ personality of Agreeableness and Conscientious and reach high level of consensus at all BFI dimensions simultaneously,which may indicate stereotype were activated during perceptual process.Observers may rely on specific linguistic cues to make accurate judgments about Agreeableness and Conscientious,positive emotion words and assent partially mediated the self-other agreement correlation for those two dimensions.2.Cue valence showed no significant impact on distinctive accuracy,however,positive emotional valence linguistic cues upraised normative accuracy simultaneously negative emotional valence linguistic cues lowered normative accuracy.It could be contributed by a positive linear relationship between observers’rating of targets on social desirable items(positive items)and average self-reported mean for those items.3.Mating motive enhanced female’s accuracy.Intra-sexual competitive motive yielded an overrating informant-rated on male.This results,from the prospect of Evolutionary Psychology,May contributed by higher cost during multiplicative process,female needs to know who can be trusted to intercourse,and male faces more competitive environment intra sexual.