(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2018) Department of Psychology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; N/A; N/A; N/A; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Baruh, Lemi; Kezer, Murat; Kamiloğlu, Roza Gizem; Niğdeli, Bihter; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Master Student; Master Student; Master Student; Department of Psychology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Business; 40374; 36113; N/A; N/A; N/A
We investigate the effects of perceivers' impressions of others' personality traits on their social attraction, after a brief encounter face-to-face or via Facebook. We first examine the main effects of perceived personality traits. Next, we compare and contrast the effects of perceived- and actual-personality similarity through polynomial regressions with response surface analysis (RSA) accounting for dyads' respective levels of personality traits. Results suggest that RSA yield estronger effects of perceived similarity (vs. actual) on attraction. Perceivers are more attracted to targets who are "better versions" of themselves, yet too much discrepancy impede attraction, more so when face-to-face. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
