The profiles on the online networks of relationships reflect the reality, according to a second study conducted by a North American university. Students considered pleasant by people that have met them in real life the same way to the people who saw their profiles on Facebook.

For the study, researchers recruited 37 college students, 18 of them women, who were to the laboratory individually, to talk with another student who participated in the research. Both had several minutes to get to know each other, making several questions.

However, one of each pair was a researcher “disguised” as a student. From there, the researchers classified the students – the classification was based on tone of voice, how much they smile, on how much they show about themselves, and other factors, verbal or not.

Then the researchers rescued in the Facebook profile of volunteers and asked a panel of ten students from other universities to assess each. The panel had an abundance of information to make the trial: the pages of Facebook used contained an average of 282 images and 868 messages from friends.

People who were more friendly to the researchers were considered the most lively and expressive in their body language in the real life. But people who spoke too much about themselves have much information on Facebook.

Looking at the research, Catalina Toma, psychologist at the University Cornell affirms that people, according to her, try not to lie because they know they can be “unmasked” in real life.

Via: Newscientist.