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Writing a blog reveals more about you than researchers previously thought, according to one of the largest studies on the matter done to date by CU psychology and neuroscience postdoctoral fellow Tal Yarkoni.

Contrary to popular wisdom, the research indicates people do not present themselves in an overly idealized way online but rather maintain online identities that reflect the way they see themselves and are viewed by others.

While there have been studies on personality and language, they relied on writing or speech samples that were limited in size and focused on general personality traits. Yarkoni leaped over these hurdles by studying almost 700 bloggers who wrote a total of more than 115,000 words. The larger samples allowed Yarkoni to identify both the broad categories and specific words certain personalities use.

For instance, highly neurotic people tend to use specific negative adjectives like 鈥渢errible鈥� and 鈥渨orse鈥� while agreeable personalities most often use the words 鈥渨onderful,鈥� 鈥渢ogether鈥� and 鈥渧isiting.鈥�

Of the remaining three 鈥淏ig Five鈥� personality types, extroverts often use 鈥渂ar,鈥� 鈥渙ther鈥� and 鈥渄rinks.鈥� Those showing openness use 鈥渇olk,鈥� 鈥渉umans鈥� and 鈥減oet鈥� while conscientious personalities use 鈥渃ompleted,鈥� 鈥渁dventure鈥� and 鈥渟tupid,鈥� among others.

鈥淚f you鈥檙e sociable and like to seek out people offline, you鈥檙e probably going to do the same thing online,鈥� Yarkoni notes. 鈥淥ur personalities don鈥檛 dramatically change just because we鈥檝e turned off our computers.鈥�

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