Exploring the links between personality and media preferences

Weaver, James B.

doi:10.1016/0191-8869(91)90203-n

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“…The Internet allows for far more "policing" of activity than other media, such as television. By looking at computer logs and activity reports, These results agree with findings on television research by Weaver (1991), but disagree with those reported by Hamburger & Ben-Artzi (2000). Nevertheless, it must be considered that the "information services" factor utilized by the authors of the latter study was comprised of "work" and "study related information," rather than "news" which is most likely unrelated to work or study information seeking.…”

Section: Personality and Internet Usesupporting

confidence: 66%

“…Gnutella network) point to more sophisticated applications than those under the music-sharing label (Appendix B). The preference for defiant, or nonmainstream content, was also evidenced in other media studies (Weaver, 1991;Weaver, Brosius, & Mundorf, 1993;Robinson, Weaver, & Zillmann, 1996;Weaver, 2001). …”

Section: Personality and Internet Usementioning

confidence: 75%

“…The role of personality as a mediator and predictor of media use has been investigated in a number of media studies, including music videos (Robinson, Weaver, & Zillmann, 1996), movies (Weaver, Brosius, & Mundorf, 1993), television, movies, and music (Weaver, 1991), television remote control use (Weaver, Walker, McCord, & Bellamy, 1996), and media violence (Zillmann & Weaver, 1997), suggesting that personality traits should, indeed, be an essential part of media gratifications research (Wober, 1986;Weaver, 1991). A recent review of personality research in mass media studies shows increasing data suggesting a connection between individual characteristics and consumption of media fare (Weaver, 2000).…”

Section: Personality and Individual Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Individual differences in Internet usage motives

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Sargent

2004

Computers in Human Behavior

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The relationship between the psychobiological model of personality types (psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism) devised by and Internet use and usage motives was examined. A sample of 210 undergraduate students were asked to report on their motives for using the Internet and how often they engaged in a variety of Internet and web-based activities. The findings demonstrate distinctive patterns of Internet use and usage motives for those of different personality types.

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Section: Personality and Internet Usesupporting

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Section: Personality and Internet Usementioning

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2004

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“…For example, Tesser, Millar and Wu (1988) had college students complete a questionnaire indicating reasons for enjoying watching movies and in a similar study Patil and Shiva-Kumar (1987) investigated the factors involved in movie attendance. Research has also explored the relationship between personality types and movie preference (Weaver, 1991) and later research from Weaver, Brosius, and Mundorf (1993) explored the impact of personality type (i.e., extraversion , neuroticism, and psychoticism) and culture (i.e., American and German) on preferences for contemporary movies.…”

Section: Research On Social Experience Of Watching Movies and Motivatmentioning

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Using Cluster Analysis to Examine Husband-Wife Decision Making

Bonds‐Raacke

2006

Psychol Rec

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Cluster analysis has a rich history in many disciplines and although cluster analysis has been used in clinical psychology to identify types of disorders, its use in other areas of psychology has been less popular. The purpose of the current experiments was to use cluster analysis to investigate husband-wife decision making. Cluster analysis was selected to illustrate the point that it can be a beneficial multivariate technique when researching husband-wife decision making by examining similar decision-making strategies used by couples and comparing joint decisions to individual decisions.For the current experiments, participants (26 couples) watched 6 movie trailers and viewed 6 sample restaurant menus. After viewing each, participants indicated how likely they would be to go to view the movie or to eat at the restaurant. Participants completed the task first independently and then jointly. Cluster analysis was used to provide the desired information by (a) forming clusters of couples in general who used common decision-making strategies and (b) forming clusters to show which spouse's decision-making strategy independently was more similar to the joint strategy. Results from the cluster analysis are discussed in light of other statistical procedures commonly used to examine husband-wife decision-making strategies.

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“…Shim and Paul found "neuroticism was positively associated with attention to all genres assessed"--news, soap operas, reality shows, talk shows and crime dramas [21]. Weaver found that male college students scoring high on neuroticism expressed a strong preference for "information/news television programs" over comedy or action-adventure offerings [22]. Thus, personality and personal history may interact with the impact of crisis media.…”

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A Challenging Empirical Question: What are the Effects of Media On Psychogenic Illness during a Community Crisis?

Kaplan-Liss¹

2012

J Community Med Health Edu

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Psychogenic illnesses during disaster scan cripple emergency healthcare services. Almost all research into this phenomenon has been retrospective and observational, and much of it suggests that media coverage can amplify psychogenic outbreaks. But there is little empirical evidence that this is true or that, conversely, media reports can mitigate psychogenic symptoms. In their work experimentally inducing psychogenic illness, the authors became sharply aware that it is difficult to experimentally mimic real-time media coverage. Yet clarifying media's effects on psychogenic illness is important if we want to prevent psychological disturbance. To meet this challenge, the authors advocate the funding and development of research protocols in advance of public emergencies, ready to be implemented in realtime. Coupled with digital media, which can track the reading and viewing behavior of millions of people, this approach can help us better understand media's impact on public health during an emergency, for better or for worse. Keywords: Disaster; Mass media; Social medicine; Psychosomatic disorders Psychogenic illness can emerge during unremarkable community events as well as public health disasters. When outbreaks occur, individuals experience symptoms that have no discernible physical cause but that spread as if contagious [1][2][3][4]. Even with minor events, such outbreaks can overburden health services, as medical personnel deal with symptoms and look for organic illness. Worse yet, when outbreaks occur in tandem with a disaster, whether natural or manmade, they can cripple emergency healthcare services, preventing care from being effectively delivered to those in most need. For instance, in 1995, when terrorists released sarin nerve gas in the subways of Tokyo, about 85 percent of the 5,500 people who sought care in hospitals had no actual exposure, but many exhibited symptoms [5].Almost all research into this phenomenon has been observational and anecdotal, and much of it has suggested that media coverage can amplify psychogenic outbreaks. To allow more rigorous investigation, our laboratory has been conducting research to create an experimental analogue. We recently completed experiments to induce psychogenic illness and included media exposure as one of the conditions [6]. Although we were able to demonstrate the social contagion aspect of psychogenic illness, we found no effect due to media exposure. We are aware, however, that the media exposure we used, watching a documentary film, did not fully reflect the real-world experiences of news consumers during a public health emergency. As we wrestled with our study design, we came to realize that creating an experimental condition that mimics real-time media coverage during an emergency is a true challenge. Yet it is important to clarify media's effects on induction of stress and psychogenic illness, so we can understand and learn to mitigate significant psychological disturbance.Many observational studies and commentaries on the consequences of media ...

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Exploring the links between personality and media preferences

Cited by 95 publications

References 8 publications

Individual differences in Internet usage motives

Individual differences in Internet usage motives

Using Cluster Analysis to Examine Husband-Wife Decision Making

A Challenging Empirical Question: What are the Effects of Media On Psychogenic Illness during a Community Crisis?

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