Wicky-Scratch-Wicky-Brunswikian Lens!

Besides sounding awesome, is there anything to this whole Brunswikian Lens Model? No.
Wait... Yes! This model offers an insightful look into how individuals infer the characteristics of others via environmental cues (Walther 2007). Essentially, this means that people leave a "behavioral footprint" that reflects their personality to those that correct the right cues. If a cue accurately reflects a person's uncers were being so picky :-p.” This claim has shared meaning that suggests that some sort of prestige was required to get into the party (i.e. s/he is also of elite standing). But the reason this is other directed is because the individual expresses this elitism even though posting on someone else’s wall as an expression of relief/complementation.

I then examined this person’s “behavioral residues.” I suddenly feel like some socio-chemist searching for the grimy slug-trails left by hapless Facebookians. No. I am a scholar with honorable intentions. Interior behavioral residue would be unintentional evidence of behaviors (past or future) that would linger in the Facebook context. While digging up long-forgotten freshman-era Facebook groups is one clear way to examine this, I decided that a more unintentional display of interior behavior would be available in the Newsfeed. And so it was! It turns out that s/he recently friended several of the members of a Facebook group trying to save grey wolves (someone’s got to do it!). This residue is left in the wake of the individual’s behaviors for observers to use as cues about the profiler. Additionally, I dug up some exterior behavioral residues by examining both wall posts and photos posted by friends. These cues give me an idea of what his/her behaviors are like outside of the Facebook environment. Apparently they involve lots of leather and tomatoes…

Anyways. These four mechanisms enabled me to form an impression of my subject along the five factor scale of neuroticism, agreeableness, openness, extraversion and conscientiousness. Neuroticism was hard for me to judge, but the wolf saving group certainly hinted at large amount of conscientiousness. Additionally, their rather cryptic lists of interests led me to feel that they were not very open, but their large number of Facebook friends made me think that this person was probably rather extraverted. And finally, a few wall post interactions allowed me to guage that this person would rather argue until they died from lack of conflict than admit to being wrong. Not so agreeable. But whether or not I’ve utilized the cues with the most validity is the true argument!

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