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Personality and the news
| Title: | Personality and the news: the Five-Factor Model and headline preferences. |
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| Name(s): |
Curry, Mila. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Thesis | |
| Issuance: | multipart monograph | |
| Date Issued: | 2008 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: |
electronic electronic resource |
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| Extent: | vi, 60 leaves : ill. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | The current study examines the relationship between the Five-Factor Model of Personality and preferences for news headlines. This is an online study in which participants were presented two headlines and were asked to choose one of them. Next, participants were asked to fill out a personality inventory. In the results we examine whether certain personality types are more likely to read certain news stories. Authors created five news headline domains, which were intended to map onto the Five-Factor Model of Personality. As hypothesized, Openness to Experience significantly (p < .05) predicted selection of items within the news headline domain entitled Culture. The study also found that personality can be predicted from news headline selection. | |
| Identifier: | 299086575 (oclc), 77663 (digitool), FADT77663 (IID), fau:1483 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Mila Curry. Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Honors College, 2008. Bibliography: leaves 38-42. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008 Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Personality and culture Emotional intelligence Image (Psychology) Mass media -- Psychological aspects Five-Factor Model of Personality |
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| Held by: | FBoU FAUER | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77663 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
