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ERF
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Online personal profile photos (PPPs) can serve as a source of impression formation and judgment about individuals. This study investigates how the emotionality expressed in a job candidate’s online PPP on a professional social network (e.g., LinkedIn) affects a recruiter’s perceptions of them. Drawing on social role theory and classifying job roles along agency (agentic) and communal dimensions, this paper proposes that job candidates whose emotional expression or inexpression in their online PPP is consistent with qualities associated with agentic and communal job roles are more likely to be perceived as competent and fit for the job role.
Paper Number
1431
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Igbojekwe, Ugochi; Eziefuna, Ebere; and Fan-Osuala, Onochie, "Does being emotionally inexpressive in personal profile photos affect hiring assessments in online professional social networks?" (2023). AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2023/sig_core/sig_core/2
Does being emotionally inexpressive in personal profile photos affect hiring assessments in online professional social networks?
Online personal profile photos (PPPs) can serve as a source of impression formation and judgment about individuals. This study investigates how the emotionality expressed in a job candidate’s online PPP on a professional social network (e.g., LinkedIn) affects a recruiter’s perceptions of them. Drawing on social role theory and classifying job roles along agency (agentic) and communal dimensions, this paper proposes that job candidates whose emotional expression or inexpression in their online PPP is consistent with qualities associated with agentic and communal job roles are more likely to be perceived as competent and fit for the job role.
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