Category: Scholarly Pursuits

Don’t Use Abbreviated Personality Measures

New research by Crede, Harms, Niehorster and Gaye-Valentine ((Credé, M., Harms, P., Niehorster, S., & Gaye-Valentine, A. (2012). An evaluation of the consequences of using short measures of the Big Five personality traits. Journal...

Facebook’s Bad For You But Good For Me

Research recently published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking ((Paradise, A., & Sullivan, M. (2012). (In)visible threats? The third-person effect in perceptions of the influence of Facebook Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15 (1),...

LinkedIn Profiles Contain Fewer Lies Than Resumes

New research by Guillory and Hancock ((Guillory, J., & Hancock, J. (2012). The Effect of Linkedin on Deception in Resumes Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2011.0389)) reveals that personal information provided on LinkedIn...