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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY PERCEPTION FROM TEXT MESSAGES A Thesis by NICHOLAS RHOADES Submitted to the Graduate School at Appalachian State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS August 2017 Department of Psychology INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY PERCEPTION FROM TEXT MESSAGES A Thesis by NICHOLAS RHOADES August 2017 APPROVED BY: Rose Mary Webb, Ph.D. Chairperson, Thesis Committee Andrew R. Smith, Ph.D. Member, Thesis Committee Mary Ballard, Ph.D. Member, Thesis Committee Rose Mary Webb, Ph.D. Interim Chairperson, Department of Psychology Max C. Poole, Ph.D. Dean, Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies Copyright by Nicholas Rhoades 2017 All Rights Reserved Abstract INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY PERCEPTION FROM TEXT MESSAGES Nicholas Rhoades B.A., University of North Carolina Asheville Chairperson: Rose Mary Webb, PhD. We live in an age of unprecedented instant communication. For example, people are able to communicate with strangers via text messages, whether online or using their smartphones. This begs the question, are people able to perceive the traits of others using only these text messages? Interestingly, research has suggested that personality traits are in fact detectable purely from the linguistic features of social media posts (Park et al., 2014) and text messages (Hood, Silio, & Webb, 2015; Udry, Rhoades & Webb, 2016). However, there may be individual differences in the ability to detect and utilize these linguistic cues. One trait that has been associated with accurate personality perception in previous research is intelligence (Christiansen, Wolcott-Burnam, Janovics, Burns, & Quirk, 2005; Lippa & Dietz, 2000; Murphy & Hall, 2009; Realo et al., 2003; Taft, 1955). The current study recruited 15 targets and 406 raters to investigate whether the relationship between rater intelligence and accuracy would hold true within the context of personality perception from text messages. Targets provided self-reported personality information and text messages, while raters were asked to complete an other-reported personality measure based on the text message of a particular target and an intelligence measure. Raters’ accuracy was assessed in terms of iv
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