Niels van de Ven - Personality Perception Based on LinkedIn Profiles

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Niels van de Ven, Aniek Bogaert, Alec Serlie, Mark Brandt, Jaap Denissen
Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol. 32, 2017, pp. 418-429

DOI: 10.1108/JMP-07-2016-0220

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van de Ven, N., Bogaert, A., Serlie, A., Brandt, M., & Denissen, J. (2017). Personality Perception Based on LinkedIn Profiles. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 32, 418–429. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-07-2016-0220

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Ven, Niels van de, Aniek Bogaert, Alec Serlie, Mark Brandt, and Jaap Denissen. “Personality Perception Based on LinkedIn Profiles.” Journal of Managerial Psychology 32 (2017): 418–429.

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van de Ven, Niels, et al. “Personality Perception Based on LinkedIn Profiles.” Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol. 32, 2017, pp. 418–29, doi:10.1108/JMP-07-2016-0220.

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@article{niels2017a,
  title = {Personality Perception Based on LinkedIn Profiles},
  year = {2017},
  journal = {Journal of Managerial Psychology},
  pages = {418-429},
  volume = {32},
  doi = {10.1108/JMP-07-2016-0220},
  author = {van de Ven, Niels and Bogaert, Aniek and Serlie, Alec and Brandt, Mark and Denissen, Jaap}
}

[we test whether people can infer someone's personality from looking at their LinkedIn profile. we find that people can (somewhat) accurately infer traits extraversion and self-presentation, but not the other factors of the Big Five (conscientiousness, openness, agreaableness, and neuroticism). Although prior research tested whether profiles of social networking sites (such as Facebook) can be used to accurately infer self-rated personality, this was not yet tested for job-related social networking sites (such as LinkedIn). Results indicate that profiles at job-related social networks, in spite of containing only relatively standardized information, "leak" information about the owner's personality]