Is there a virtual personality? A psycholexical informed exploratory study of personality traits in virtual environments in Spanish-speaking population

Abstract: The aim of this research was to explore the concept of virtual personality. Traditional personality models were developed based on characteristics of the real (or offline) world. Given the evidence suggesting that people may behave differently in virtual environments, it is important to explore whether there is a virtual way of being: a virtual personality. To address this objective, three consecutive studies were conducted using various samples of Spanish-speaking adults from the general population. In Study … Show more