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SUBMITTER: Bailey ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7538578 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bailey Erica R ER Matz Sandra C SC Youyou Wu W Iyengar Sheena S SS
Nature communications 20201006 1
Social media users face a tension between presenting themselves in an idealized or authentic way. Here, we explore how prioritizing one over the other impacts users' well-being. We estimate the degree of self-idealized vs. authentic self-expression as the proximity between a user's self-reported personality and the automated personality judgements made on the basis Facebook Likes and status updates. Analyzing data of 10,560 Facebook users, we find that individuals who are more authentic in their ...[more]