Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cultural differences on visual self-presentation through social networking site profile images
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Let's keep in touch online: a Facebook aware virtual human interface
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
| Hi-index | 0.01 |
Self-affirmation is the process of bringing to awareness important aspects of the self, such as values, goals, and treasured characteristics. When affirmed, individuals are more open-minded and less defensive. This study examines whether social networking tools, such as Facebook, have self-affirming value. Participants were asked to either spend time on their own Facebook profiles, or on a stranger's profile. Afterwards, they were given negative feedback on a task. Participants who spent time on their own profiles were more accepting of the feedback, and less likely to engage in ego-protective mechanisms, such as derogating the task or the evaluator. In fact, they behaved identically to participants who completed a classic self-affirmation manipulation. The theoretical contributions of this paper include (1) identifying intrapersonal effects of online self-presentation and (2) extending self-affirmation theory to include social media use.