Application for Odnoklassniki - our true face

80% of the profiles on dating sites contain the best and most successful photographs of their owners. Often over them so bothered Photoshop, that at the meeting in real life, a person is not at all like your picture. We smooths wrinkles, "reduce" the age and gives himself the qualities of supermen. Logically, all the same to be repeated on the social networking sites have become incredibly popular in recent years.

However, somewhere in the "Classmates" users more often appear in his real, unvarnished way. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, who analyzed the profiles of 236 young people from the US and Germany.

Participants were asked to tell about what they really are, and who would like to be ideally. The rating was based on numerous characteristics, including extroversion , Agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. Then the results were compared with questionnaires on social sites.

"I was surprised by the results of research, because it is assumed that the Internet we try to imagine their ideal image - says psychologist Sam Gosling, author of the study. - And we found out that the profiles on social networking sites is just much more likely to reflect the true nature of a person, not an ideal. This is due to the fact that people here do not try to look nicer than they really are. " Obviously, this is explained by the fact that the direct purpose of social networking sites is not the search for a sexual partner, and companionship. And pretense is not too effective.

The researchers found that the online profiles of people often with a high degree of objectivity reflects extroversion (ie the person's willingness to communicate with other users). A less clear picture of the degree profile gives neuroticism his master.

Apparently, these findings do not relate to the numerous holders of fraudulent profiles (alone in the "Classmates" three dozen of Sergey Lazarev and fifty ALL Pugachevs) and a cohort of citizens, instead of exposing their photo images of little-known models. Do the owners of these questionnaires about the sincerity of their ideas.

Psychology

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