How Your Facebook Updates Reveal Your Personality

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By Neuroskeptic
Nov 15, 2014 5:28 PMNov 20, 2019 1:45 AM

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The words you use in your Facebook posts reveal much about your personality, according to psychologists Gregory Park and colleagues in a new study just published. Based on a study of 71,000 Facebook users who reported their personality using an app, Park et al. found some quite unexpected words to be associated with given personality traits. Here are the word clouds showing which terms are most predictive of extroversion and introversion:

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