Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
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.
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FAU
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Physical Description
electronic
electronic resource
vi, 60 leaves : ill.
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Other Title Info
Personality and the news
the Five-Factor Model and headline preferences