Personality traits and echo chambers on facebook
Personality traits and echo chambers on facebook
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DOI：
10.1016/j.chb.2016.08.016
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发表时间：
2016-12-01
影响因子：
9.9
通讯作者：
Bessi, Alessandro
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作者：
Bessi, Alessandro
在在线社交网络中，用户倾向于选择符合他们的信仰体系的信息，并形成两极分化的志同道合的人群体。两极分化及其对在线社交的影响已经得到了广泛的调查。尽管如此，群体形成和个性特征之间的关系仍然不清楚。更好地理解在线社会动态的认知和心理决定因素可能有助于设计更有效的沟通策略，并挑战数字错误信息威胁。在这项工作中，我们关注用户评论美国Facebook页面上发布的支持科学和阴谋式叙事的帖子，并根据用户的在线行为对这些用户的个性特征进行分类。我们表明，不同和冲突的社区由表现出相似心理特征的用户组成，在科学和阴谋回音室中，主导人格模型是相同的。此外，我们观察到回音室内的持久性略微塑造了用户的心理特征。我们的结果表明，个体中特定人格特征的存在导致了他们在虚拟回音室中相当程度地参与支持叙事。(C)2016爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
In online social networks, users tend to select information that adhere to their system of beliefs and to form polarized groups of like minded people. Polarization as well as its effects on online social interactions have been extensively investigated. Still, the relation between group formation and personality traits remains unclear. A better understanding of the cognitive and psychological determinants of online social dynamics might help to design more efficient communication strategies and to challenge the digital misinformation threat. In this work, we focus on users commenting posts published by US Facebook pages supporting scientific and conspiracy-like narratives, and we classify the personality traits of those users according to their online behavior. We show that different and conflicting communities are populated by users showing similar psychological profiles, and that the dominant personality model is the same in both scientific and conspiracy echo chambers. Moreover, we observe that the permanence within echo chambers slightly shapes users' psychological profiles. Our results suggest that the presence of specific personality traits in individuals lead to their considerable involvement in supporting narratives inside virtual echo chambers. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.