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I Married Superman: 10 Characteristics of a Quality Guy.
Finding a good man, x-ray vision not required.
I married Superman.
No, he doesn't own a cape—but he does have super powers.
He makes me feel like the most amazing woman alive. He treats me with the care and respect I deserve; he loves our little girl in a way that melts my heart—and every single day I thank God that I married this man.
So what should you look for in a guy? These 10 things:
1. Humor. Life has ups and downs, and dramas and supporting characters that we sometimes wish would vanish. So your guy should make you laugh.
2. Intelligence. My man has a Master's degree in Geophysics and another Master's in Medical Physics; with work experience in both fields. Basically, I'm married to a genius. Does your guy have to have an I.Q. better than Einstein's? No, but you definitely need to be able to relate to him on a mental level—and he should bring out your own curiosity and intellect too.
3. Physical fitness. Your guy doesn't have to leap tall buildings in a single bound—but if he takes care of himself physically, it's a sign of self-respect.
4. Patience. Being in a relationship with me probably isn't easy. I'm neurotic and hyperactive—and impatient. So I'm eternally grateful that I married a guy with the patience of a superhero. Trust me, if he has patience with you and your quirky qualities, it makes life that much easier.
5. Loving feeling. My husband loves me; truly loves who I am inside and out. Pick someone who really likes being with you.
6. Soulful. My guy is so spiritual. He always has been. Being with someone with a spiritual nature is enriching to your life—and to the relationship you share.
7. Commitment Lover. Back in high school, I had a theory that my girlfriends should date guys who liked worn out jeans (I've dated my husband since I was 14). My thinking was that if he had trouble getting rid of those perfectly worn pants, then he was also more likely to enjoy long-term relationships. Now I'm not too sure of the accuracy of this adolescent idea, but your ideal partner should show a level of commitment in other areas of his life besides you.
8. Good taste. My favorite clothes and jewelry are hand-picked by my husband. I don't think that this has to be a requirement of a successful relationship—but it sure doesn't hurt either.
9. Compliments. Your perfect mate should spend more time highlighting what's great about you than harping on your lesser traits; not because he's blind to your reality, but because he loves you for who you are and knows that we live up to the standards that are set for us. In short, we grow to be our best selves in a nurturing, positive environment.
10. He doesn't take your crap. Okay, so I do mean the above statement in number nine. However, that doesn't mean your guy should turn his head when you treat him poorly, try to control him, or act in a way that's beneath you. He should encourage—and if necessary demand—that you rise and shine to the occasion; that you be your best self.
Life is challenging, and a great partner should make your life easier not harder.
Finding a good guy is possible.
Good luck on your quest.
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You are a very, VERY lucky woman. I've been looking for these very qualities and am on the verge of giving up and adopting more cats.
I am lucky, but don't give up! (Although, do adopt more cats if you want 😉 Seriously, good men are not fictitious creatures. They are out there seeking good women.
Beth, keep in mind that finding a guy that matches these criteria is not easy, do not limit your self more by bringing on so many cats that he has to have a degree in Animal Husbandry. The best thing you could do is go to a grocery store or gym to find this person. Keep in mind, do not look at the guy who is so beefed up with muscles that you will be competing with weights as an affair, but find the guy who just slightly over and is trying to improve his self. The grocery store look in the produce section. If you try to find a guy in the meat department, you could be working against severe testosterone again. Don't discount joining a AA group or alike as there you may find someone who has tackled an issue in their life and is fixing it. Filtering through these is very important but good could come from it. Good luck he is out there, the right place to look is very important though.
They exist! Especially the Irish guys, I married one! He is all of the above & more…
My husband's part Irish too. Hmmm… 😉
Mine is too 22 years ago his Irish eyes walked in… 5 years ago I finally married them
I found one, too!
Three cats and one guy who is not like the above. Life goes on, heaven forbid if I knew how far off the mark I was from any man's list.
"Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other's lives. They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves." ~ A Year of Daily Wisdom by Marianne Williamson
My husband wears superman jammies! Yes, really.
Thanks for the feedback, ladies. I love hearing your stories.
Looks like I'm a winner! Thanks for this ego boost, Jennifer! I nabbed me a good one!
What the helllll does number six mean? As a gent, or a lady, I'd love more specific, personal advice from you!
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/the-interv… Reminds me of this.
Don't tell folks to be "spiritual", show them how? More, please, help!
No, I'm certainly not telling people to be more spiritual. In fact, I'm not telling people to be any of these things. I'm saying that, for me, these are qualities that I think are important in a partner. Maybe spirituality isn't important to some people, but to me it definitely is. If you look at any of the things on this list, I think most of them are innate qualities that you have or don't, and I certainly don't plan on embarking upon a quest to teach people how to be funny or believe in God.
Great article, I love it. I strive to have all/more of those qualities in myself. I have found not having enough of #10 can be a bad thing.
Keep on writing, thank you.
Thanks for the positive feedback, Tom. Much appreciated. I love that #10 has gotten such great support. I know, as a strong woman, I appreciate when my husband "doesn't take my crap." Thanks again.
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This is a good top 10 list. I really like the "Commitment Lover" one too, that's really good. I laughed, but its sooo true
Great article! I've consistently shown all but #10. Whenever I don't show #10, my girlfriend tells me that those times make her feel like she "doesn't have any limits." Maybe that reaction is a bad sign, but I suspect it's simply that she wants to see that I respect myself enough not to let her walk all over me.
I have 8/10 and the other two don't matter – we have been together for 25 years and I sooooooo love him. Every day. Always.
Great article. I married Superman though 😉
I wouldn't marry Superman if you paid me to do it. He would be way too full of himself and would always be dashing out the door to put out another fire. While I agree with 66.6% of the points made in the article, I disagree with the rest. A quality man is humble and loving, not boastful about how great he is. If I'm looking for a challenge match, I'll bring out the chess board. The Irish are great, but the ones I have dated are very bull-headed and touchy. I'll stick with my Italian, who is the kindest, sweetest and most helpful man I have ever known. We all have our own ideas about what works for us. Oh, and he adores my cats. Why would any woman want or try to give their partner crap, or vice versa? A willingness to compromise and be accepting, should be on that list.
That's a great list, but I'm So surprised Honesty is not on it! I married a guy who had 7 out of 10 of these and I thought how lucky am I?! BUT it turned out he was a deceiver and a half. Also, I was so amused at number 7…mine hung on to ALL his old stuff, especially mementos of girlfriends past (ugh), but had serious commitment issues soon as he 'got' the girl. Always one foot in one foot out! Thought I'd share with you that what you may think indicates 'commitment lover' may be a guy who also hangs on to his emotional baggage because he's never dealt with it! We are currently going through a divorce and although there are days I miss all his other superman qualities terribly, I remind myself how tormented I used to feel constantly wondering whether whatever he was saying to me was true or not, sincere or just meant to manipulate me, he was such a habitual liar/deceiver.
Only if there were a course .
I'd be one very Happy man..
YES! add more cats! I agree. haha.
I find it sad how ever that these things need to be written down. This to me is basic humanity between two lovers. But I know all too well , that these things are NOT common for some and it creates a very negative experience for all.
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i am a guy and i like this article much. women are somewhat an enigma even though i grew up with a twin sister yes i totally get it, women love feeling safe and i can only imagine that you reciprocate. would be nice to have his 10 things that make you a super hero. personally i struggle with #4 and #10. it's not simple being with a woman who is fire. it's partly why i love her, though i feel that sometimes there is more reaction and a response. i have yet to learn how to calmly walk away without getting involved, nor have i cracked the code on #10 without her feeling she is being blamed or being put down.. but yeah – it's a journey thanks for posting jen!
I call bullsh#$.. For every women that loves this list there are ten more that don't. Fact is, women are complex and don't know what they really want as a whole. Some women like strong quiet types while others like sensitive, emotionally expressive types. Some women want the man to take charge of everything and others want to be equals in all decisions made. I have been married and have dated numerous women of all backgrounds. If its one thing I can say for certain is that all women are different. Different needs , wants , demands, what have you. Men will never be able to figure women out as a whole. The trick is to find a man who loves you for you , the good and the bad, and can't imagine not having you in his life. Who will stick by you through thick and thin. Doesn't matter if he's funny, intellectual or well styled. Problem is women are out there looking for perfect men when they themselves are not perfect, because of lists like this.
I agree with Dr. Oz. Ain't nobody got time for this. Staying alive is tough enough. On top of that I have to do this, be that?
Yes, 1,2 3, and 8 actually say nothing about the quality of a person. I dated a sociopath that had all 4 of those characteristics.
It doesn't matter what type of overall man a woman wants. Whether I want a strong and quiet type or a sensitive expressive type, I want him to have a sense of humor, intelligence, self-respect, patience, true appreciation of the real me, a connection to spiritual nature, respect for commitment, and good taste. I want him to compliment and complement me, and I want him to be self-assured and help me grow. This isn't a "perfect" man, it's just a list of what makes a man realistically decent for getting into a relationship with. The specifics of his type of humor, his intellectual specialties, how he keeps himself physically, how he shows his appreciation and love, what spirituality he has, what things he's committed to, what his good taste is in, how he compliments, or how he responds when I'm going to far… those are intricacies that one decides on for their image of someone "perfect." The list you're meaning to 'dis' is not this one.
What makes a man perfect for me is when the WAY he does the things above align with the way I do them. My husband and I share a love of certain intellectual skills, for example. We argue about baroque and romantic periods in music and art. Some people don't want that, they want someone who is knowledgeable about modern music as they are. Both are intellectually matched, and it's healthy to want an intellectual match. If any woman would prefer to be with someone of lower intellect who lets her abuse him, who isn't willing to commit to anything, who doesn't respect himself, doesn't consider the divine on the level she does, and can't make her laugh… why does she even want him??
Really? This is like something I would've written in my diary as a teenager. The fact that it was written by a grown woman makes it contrived at worst, generic at best. Nice, funny, and works out? Wow. Thanks for those amazing revelations.
lucky girl.
I'm a guy and I like the article although I feel like its a bit specific to blanket cover looking for a spouse. When dating there are 3 primary intimacies important to share; intellectual, spiritual, and maturity. One of the most important characteristics of a person to watch for are unselfishness; in other words, how do they treat people that they won't benefit from? A second characteristic, no less important, are conflict resolution skills. How able are they to stop resisting and talk to you like a human being whose needs are just as important as your own. Thirdly, ability to attach and commit; like the author said, their value to commitment is important to observe outside the sphere of a romantic relationship, it is quite revealing. There are hundreds of books written on this kind of stuff….so obviously 3 things is short, but in the long run if you consider these things, you'll make a wise decision and be able to say you married superman(or woman in my case). And I don't care whoever you are reading this, a committed successful marriage/family is the single most difficult thing you can do in this life, so if you like a challenge, get after it! Thank you for posting this article
I agree with EKLounge and his philosophy relating to 3 primary intimacies. All of his stated characteristics are integral components necessary for a healthy and stable relationship. Having given up a career that was very important to me, to marry a man with custody of his three small children, all of whom had major emotional and developmental problems, was very challenging for me in my early 40s. I moved to a new town, gave up my single friends, and raised our children in the exact way that I would have raised my own biological children, if I had been able to have any. My husband traveled around the world on business, in a time when we did not have international cell phones. I didn't do it to be labled Superwoman. I was merely doing what I considered to be the right thing for my husband, my children, and our family. If that isn't a challenging commitment full of love, honor and selflessness, I don't know what is. It was the best thing I've ever done. Tennis, anyone?
That's probably me ^_^
I love the idea of the article: I've talked repeatedly about how superheroes are a good model for our masculinity, such as at https://thefredbc.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/chival… . But I do think that this article is a little bit simplistic. I'm writing a whole book on how comic book heroes in general provide us very specific morality lessons.
Superman has a lot of great and wonderful specifics that I think should be discussed.
#1: He supports his loved one in what she does. Superman respects Lois, because as Clark he knows how important being a reporter is.
#2: He allows his loved one to cut him down to size. In the cartoon adaptation of Superman vs. The Elite, Lois repeatedly challenges Clark on his optimism about human nature.
#3: He does his own thing and is proud of it, and lets his wife support him. During the battles against The Elite, Lois is wincing but still watching. Lois never tries to change him any more than he tries to change her.
#4: He will always save her life and be there to help her, but never giving her the feeling that she is weak and needs saving. (That's a tough one, and I'm still learning from Clark on that front).
One can keep going, but that's those are some most important parts of what makes a true Superman.
Read through the list carefully but each time the answer cam back me, me, me, me, me, me all the way through to 10 so ladies message me on FB and you might be the lucky girl!
Oh dear. This 'check list' along with the authors uber wonderful examples will be a bit intimidating for a lot of wanna be good husband 'material' guys out there.
My main criteria for a good woman is simply a gorgeous being that is comfortable in her skin and makes me feel happy to be alive.
Making and measuring relationship checklists must be one of the least romantic things one can do. Using them to brag (celebrate) or validate one's own status (share) is another.
Kind Regards, Keith (Who has ever changing boxes to tick or cross)
P.S You left 'that something you can't quite put your finger on' off the list and heart pounding sexual attraction too.
I have found the problem with many women – not all, or even most – is they are so worried about finding the perfect guy and whether he meets their list, they don't stop to consider if they're the woman such a man would want. I'm not saying these are bad women, I'm just saying they are not self-aware and do not spend nearly as much time on improving themselves as figuring out just exactly what they "deserve" from a man.
I say this because I've seen it in real life and because this is only like the 300th "guys should be" article I've seen in the last six months. I have seen exactly three articles on how a woman should be, and I think those authors have now left the country voluntarily to escape the harassment.
your blessed. With my x-fiancé I remember going for a walk and I was shivering cold since the wind had picked up. He had 2 hoodies on and did he give me one or even put his arm around me and hug me in to warm me up. Nope. Nothing. That's just one small reason we are no longer together. It was always all about him and I was last on his list of priorities. But thinking positive for the future and meeting a man who has these traits!
Thank for this!!! I actually found one, too! and you saying you've been dating your husband since your 14 supports my belive it could realy last for long…The more I'm reading, and observing us together, the more I'm believing again in true love like I did when I was youger 😀
wow that is great. good to see this site. helpful for us.
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Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits and Effects on Memory for
Online Profiles
Kristin Stecher & Scott Counts
University of Washington & Microsoft Research
Department of Psychology, 351525, Seattle, WA, 98195
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052
firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
As users navigate online social spaces, they encounter
numerous personal profiles, each displaying a unique
constellation of attributes. How do users make sense of this
information? In our first study, we provide evidence that
users spontaneously make personality trait inferences about
people from profiles they encounter online, and for certain
profiles, preferentially remember this inferred trait content
over actual profile content. Study 2 uses several measures of
profile coherence to assess how the coherence of user
profiles interacts with trait inferences to influence memory
for profiles. Findings provide a better understanding of
specific profile content that makes profiles memorable and
the social-cognitive process utilized when extracting
information from profiles.
We live in the ―Information Age‖ and the sheer amount of
data that bombards us daily can be overwhelming. How
can humans, as information processors, quickly and
efficiently incorporate the important information and weed
out the less essential? Fortunately, humans are particularly
capable of this process when it comes to understanding and
processing information about other human beings. In fact,
this is one area where humans can still ―out-process‖
machines. For instance, humans are experts at face
recognition (Zhao, Chellappa, Phillips & Rosenfeld, 2003)
This is clearly an adaptive characteristic for our species. In
order for us to function in society we need to be able to
recognize whether another member of our society is angry
with us or is welcoming us as a friend. In the domain of
personality, interpreting information about other people's
personality helps us predict their behaviors in the future.
For example, knowing who is selfish rather than generous
helps us decide who to ask for a favor should we need one.
In recent years, individuals have begun to represent
themselves online and create social networks that include
self-representations in the form of online profiles. Social
networks and online profiles have become critical
components of computer supported social interactions,
serving both social (e.g., dating site profiles) and functional
purposes (e.g., networking for work). Online profiles are a
unique means of self expression for users. Users may spend
a great deal of time creating profiles to convey their
personality to others, but how is that personality
information interpreted by perceivers? Can perceivers who
are bombarded with many sources of information both from
within the network itself and from other competing sources
adequately interpret trait information portrayed in profiles?
Additionally, are profiles
personality traits interpreted or remembered differently than
those that do not?
Traditionally, research surrounding human computer
interaction has provided important insight into cognitive
processes behind computing (Card, Moran & Newell,
1983). Design can be informed by the users' cognitive
model. As our interactions in these domains become
increasingly social, additional research is needed to
understand users' social cognitive model in order to begin
to answer these questions. If researchers understand how
users construe social information, software can be better
designed to facilitate social interactions.
that effectively portray
Spontaneous Inferences
People need very little information to form impressions of
others' traits. Work by Uleman, Newman & Moskwitz
(1996) demonstrates that perceivers make ―spontaneous
inferences‖ about traits when given a small amount of
behavioral information (Uleman, 1999). In the Uleman
work, study participants are told to study a number of
sentences describing behaviors. Some of the sentences
contain strong trait content. For instance, some subjects
receive ―John wondered where stars come from.‖ which
cues the trait ―curious‖. Later participants are asked to
remember the individuals based on either trait cues or cues
from the sentence. The key finding is that trait cues
(―curious‖) cue memory as well or better than actual
content from the sentence (―stars‖). The rationale is that
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people are very good at extracting what information is
important and personality traits often are of high utility. It
may be prove more adaptive for us in the future to
remember that John is a curious person so we can ask him a
question than for us to remember something irrelevant
about stars. In the case of online profiles, this suggests that
when people are presented with profiles, they will
remember personality traits as well or better than the strict
content of the profiles.
It is important to keep in mind that not only do these studies
find that individuals infer personality traits, but they find
that they do so spontaneously. Perceivers need to merely
read about a behavior, and this is sufficient to trigger a trait
inference. According to Uleman (1999) these inferences are
spontaneous because:
1. They are often below conscious awareness.
2. They are not intentional (not implied by the
direction set).
3. They are not controllable.
In other words, perceivers infer traits in spite of their
processing goals. This does not mean that controlled
(within conscious awareness and intentional) trait
inferences do not exist, or that automatic (below conscious
awareness and unintentional) processes cannot work in
parallel with controlled processes. However, Uleman's
research suggests that both controlled and automatic
processes are at work in the impression formation process
and in fact, these processes are activated for different
reasons. It is intuitive to imagine both instances when users
examine profiles using controlled and spontaneous
processes. For example, a casual browser on a blogging site
might make inferences about profiles through spontaneous
processes while an online dater looking for a romantic
partner may use controlled processing. The individual
looking for a romantic partner may know very well what
traits they just inferred, but the casual browser may not
know that they made inferences at all. We suggest that the
casual browser makes more inferences than they think.
Spontaneous inferences are of particular interest to us
because they may guide users' choices and behavior even
when those users can not elaborate them.
The "How" of Online Profile Processing
Users in computer medicated contexts must make many of
the same decisions as users in face-to-face contexts. They
often encounter many other user profiles and must form
impressions and simultaneously remember information
about these individuals. Does the impression formation
process operate in the same way as in a face-to-face
encounter? Computer Medicated Communication (CMC)
often has fewer cues than face-to-face encounters and
researchers propose two opposing theories that explain how
users will integrate content from these contexts. One theory
suggests that individuals will not encode as much
information about other users, and will disclose less
(Sproull & Kiesler, 1985). Walther (1996) and other
theorists however, suggest that users pick up on minimal
cues and encode whatever information is available.
Communication in CMC is, according to Walter,
―hyperpersonal‖ because the limited availability of cues
causes perceivers to pick up on whatever cues are available.
Users in CMC detect cues that may be overlooked in face-
to-face settings to make inferences about conversation
partners. For instance those in CMC use personal pronouns
as contextual cues as well as pauses and lulls in
These theories allow us to begin to understand how
people view those they meet and interact with online.
Although this research focuses primarily on the linguistic
cues that users parse, it is possible to imagine other social
cues that are utilized. For example, in the current research
we seek to explain the personality trait judgments people
make when they encounter others online and how quickly
this occurs. Thus our first study helps address the ―how‖ of
this fundamental social-cognitive process taking place
online. It also enables us to make suggestions to designers
and users based on social cognitive models.
The "What" of Online Profile Processing
Research shows that personal websites are fairly high
fidelity representations of personality (Vazire & Gosling,
2004). One goal for this work is to start breaking down
online personal representations into attributes that can then
be tied to the conveyance of personality. In that vein,
research has identified several attributes of online profiles
that are important to users in online contexts. For instance,
in an online dating context, Fiore (2002) analyzed 250,000
messages over an 8 month period and identified key profile
attributes that are important to men and women. Men are
interested in physical attractiveness and associated factors,
whereas women are interested in education level and
attractiveness. In online gaming interactions, users were
best matched to other users based on distinct player types
distinguished by their preferences for friendly versus
aggressive play (Schiano, Nardi, Gumbrecht, & Swartz,
2004). Again displaying a distinct preference for particular
profile attributes over others, in a chat room environment,
users prefer to match to similar others rather than others
who have good reputations (Jensen, Davis, & Farnham,
2002). Markus, Machelik & Schütz (2006) suggest that
users can form impressions of others from their websites
and they identify the elements of sites that help craft these
Like these previous efforts, we wanted to make
predictions about how the structure of online profile content
affects processing. With Study 2 we address the ―what‖ of
profile processing by examining the impact of the
coherence of profile content on memory for those profiles.
Study 2 continues to place an emphasis on social cognitive
factors by:
Using memory as the dependent measure rather than
general ―preference‖, because it is less subjective and
explicit attitudes towards profiles may not be completely
representative (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995).
1. Avoiding domain specificity.
2. Considering interactions between profile structure
and the trait inference process.
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Experimental Studies
Stimuli: Creating Profiles
For our study stimuli we created personal profiles using the
following four step process.
Step 1: Personal Descriptions. Real personal descriptions
were gathered from a popular blog site. Bloggers used these
descriptions as an introduction to their blog in response to
the item ―About Me‖. Descriptions ranged from favorite
movie quotes to descriptions of more broad personality
These profiles were then altered slightly to obfuscate the
identity of the individuals selected. Because the profiles
contained considerable variability in length, we also
standardized the length of the profiles so that each profile
contained between 30-60 words. Initially we selected 55
personal descriptions for inclusion in our pilot study.
Step 2: Add Photos. Photos were obtained using an
informed consent process. A separate group of participants
released their photos for inclusion in the study. Photos
were then matched with an appropriate personal
description. We combined the personal description with the
photo into a brief ―about me‖ profile overview (See Figure
1). These were our stimulus materials throughout the
Step 3: Pilot Study. In order to determine whether and
what personality traits were implied by our stimuli profiles,
we distributed the pilot profiles to 20 participants who were
asked to write down the three characteristics they believed
best defined the person in each profile. In order for the
profile to be included in our study, 50% or more of the
participants had to describe the profile using the same trait
or a close synonym. The trait terms used were the
colloquial terms rather than researcher driven names (i.e.
―geeky‖ not ―intelligent‖). The purpose of this piloting was
to ensure that the stimuli profiles included in the final study
did in fact contain traits that perceivers could extract. This
technique of trait listing is borrowed from previous research
on spontaneous trait inferences (Uleman et al., 1996;
Uleman, 1999). 32 profiles were included in the final
Step 4: Semantic Profiles. After creating trait implying
profiles in steps 1-3, we created ―semantic‖ versions for
each stimulus profile by removing the trait implication. For
instance instead of reading ―I am a typical chemistry major
attending MIT, with aspirations of either becoming a
college professor or becoming a pop star. I am an avid
player of videogames (especially Nintendo).‖, the semantic
version of the above profile reads, ―I am a typical college
student with aspirations of either becoming a teacher or
becoming a pop star. I am an avid player of video games
(especially Nintendo).‖ In this version, the trait implication
of ―geeky‖ is removed (or significantly weakened) by
diluting the implications of his academic affiliations (MIT),
his scientific major and his career aspirations. In all the
semantic profiles, we preserved as much of the content
from the original trait implying profile as possible. The
inclusion of semantic profiles in our study allows us to rule
out the suggestion that our effects are due to the profile
pictures alone. Each picture was assigned to a trait profile
and a matched semantic profile, allowing us to compare
memory for trait and semantic profiles.
Note that for our research purposes we created a
somewhat simplified profile, containing a photo and
personal statement. We felt that these abbreviated profiles
made our research tractable while maintaining sufficient
realism in that users often make choices based on these
types of profiles, such as whether this is a person who's
blog they would like to read.
Study 1
1. Individuals make personality trait inferences when
viewing online profiles.
2. These inferences can be "spontaneous".
Demographics. Our first study included 31 participants
who were recruited via email. None of the participants
were known by the experimenters. Twenty-three male
participants and eight female participants took part in our
study. Twenty-two participants were Caucasian, 5 were
Asian, 3 were African-American and one was "other".
Participants ranged in age from 19 to 49 years with an
average age of 33.5.
Participants reported having experience with social
networking sites. On average participants had 2.5 years of
experience and spent an average of 2.19 hours a week on
these sites. In addition, participants posted an average of
3.73 profiles in their lifetime.
Method. Participants were told that they would view a
number of online profiles that were ―About Me‖ sections
from a popular blogging site and also warned that some
details had been changed to protect the identities of the
individuals portrayed. After consenting to participate,
participants were given very general instructions to ―form
an impression‖ about the profiles they were to view. This
kept the experience as realistic as possible for participants
while not instructing them to remember any specific
information, thus allowing for spontaneous processing.
Using methods from social psychology, we adapted our
profiles to a cued-recall technique that is widely accepted
for detecting spontaneous inferences (Uleman, 1999). This
procedure utilizes Tulving's encoding specificity principle
(Tulving, 1972; Uleman et al., 1996). If secondary
information is present while primary information is being
encoded, secondary information will serve as a cue for the
Figure 1. Sample Trait Profile. Implies "geeky".
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primary information. Therefore, if people make a
personality trait inference when they read a profile, then
traits should serve as memory cues to help remember those
profiles (Uleman et al., 1996). If this trait inference is
especially strong, then traits will be as good of a cue or
better as content from the profile. Trait cues will not help if
this personality trait was not present in the profile. This
procedure was administered using two study–recall phases.
Study Phase 1. During the first study phase participants
were asked to view 16 profiles. Profiles were presented on
screen for 10 seconds each. Participants had to press
―continue‖ after each profile to move on with the
experiment. This was to ensure each profile was viewed.
The order of the 16 profiles was randomized. Eight trait
profiles and eight semantic profiles were presented.
Recall Phase 1. In the recall phase participants are
presented with either trait cues or semantic cues in the form
of words shown on screen and asked to use these as
prompts to recall the profile information they read about
earlier. Semantic cues were words (e.g., ―Nintendo‖) that
were actually contained in the profile while trait cues were
trait words (e.g., ―geeky‖) that were not contained explicitly
in the profile but were cued in trait profiles. The trait cue
words were those provided by our pilot study participants
who initially evaluated the profiles for the presence of a
trait, which ensured that the trait cue words were well-
matched to the trait profile stimuli. Subjects were given a
blank space below the cue to provide as much of the
personal description as they could remember based on the
cue. After one practice trial, participants completed this
cued recall procedure for each of the 16 profiles shown in
the study phase of the experiment.
We randomized the stimuli but ensured there were the
same numbers of each type per cell to control for order
effects (Table 1). Each subject received eight of each
profile/cue combination.
Study Phase 2- Recall Phase 2. The procedure described
above was repeated with 16 more profiles so that
participants saw a total of 32 profiles in two sets of study-
recall phases. The study was broken into two parts because
pilot testing demonstrated that participants did not have the
capacity to remember sufficient information from 32
Measures. As noted, this was a cued-recall task. Our
dependent measure was recall for the profile content when
cued. Raters who were blind to the participants' condition
coded the recall on a scale of 0-3 (no recall- complete
recall). No recall meant that when cued, the participant was
unable to type in any amount of the profile ―About Me‖
statement. Complete recall meant that the participant
reproduced the entire ―About Me‖ statement when cued.
Most frequently, participants recalled some part of the
―About Me‖ statement.
Note that some words cued a profile that was not the
―intended‖ profile. For instance, when presented with the
trait word ―geeky‖, individuals may have recalled a
different profile than the profile the experimenters had in
mind. Because many profiles did imply similar traits, we
felt it necessary to account for this and included these
scores in our analysis. Less than 5% of the words recalled
fell into this category. Additionally, semantic and even trait
profiles may have cued other traits (e.g., the ―geeky‖ profile
in Figure 1 may have cued the trait ―achiever‖). However
because these traits were not provided as cues, we assume
this did not affect recall scores.
Study 1
We were interested in what type of information helped cue
recall for participants. Results from our 2 x 2 ANOVA
show that there was no main effect of word, F(1, 30)=0.01,
p<0.987. There was however, a significant main effect of
profile such that trait profiles were preferentially recalled,
F(1, 31)=21.4, p<0.001. The trait word- trait profile pairing
was of particular interest to us. Simple effects of profile for
demonstrated a simple effect of profile for trait words, F(1,
31)=51.8, p<0.001. There was no simple effect of profile
when the cue was a semantic word, F(1, 31)=1.01, p=0.322.
Trait profiles were remembered better when the cue was a
trait word (M=1.02) but not when the cue was a semantic
word (M=0.52). Finally, there was an overall profile x
word interaction, F(1, 31)=35.3, p<0.001. This interaction
is presented in Figure 2.
These findings demonstrate that traits serve as better
recall cues than semantic words but only when profiles
imply relevant traits. Therefore, it seems that participants
remember the overall trait content of the profile better than
the actual semantic content of the profiles they are
presented with. They cannot however, extract trait content
if that trait is not implied.
Anecdotal Evidence for Spontaneous Trait Inferences.
It is also interesting to note that participants responding to
semantic cue words often spontaneously generated trait
information during recall. For instance, one subject recalls
―the seemingly self-centered girl who also liked Louis
Vuitton and diamonds‖, when prompted with the cue
―perfumes‖. Although the participant was simply asked to
recall the profile, the participant felt it diagnostic to note
trait information (―self-centered‖) in addition to actual
profile content. Another recalls, ―sports jock that will take
mother out to a seafood dinner‖ simply because the target
was wearing a track uniform although the target indicated
nothing about sports in his profile. Although we did not
Table 1. Presentation Matrix, Study 1. Numbers
represent profiles shown in each condition
Trait Profile
Trait Cue 8 8
Semantic Cue 8 8
Figure 2: Recall based on condition. Memory ranges
from 0 = no recall of profile content to 3 = complete
recall of profile content. Error Bars= S.E.
Trait Word Semantic
Recall for All Profiles
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systematically analyze this content, it seems that
dispositional processing of information is implicit and, as
we hypothesize, spontaneous.
Discussion, Study 1
We designed our first study to examine whether:
Individuals better remember people in online profiles using
trait inferences than from the actual content of the profiles.
These trait inferences can be ―spontaneous‖.
We demonstrated that, like people who meet others in
real world interactions, users in online communities are
skilled at extracting important trait information from messy
data. In fact, when users view profiles they may remember
information about personality traits of other users more than
the actual content of the profiles they view. However, this is
only true if these profiles imply this trait.
Not only do perceivers extract traits from online profiles,
but they also do so spontaneously. Without any explicit
instructions or processing goals, they still made inferences
about users' personality traits. By simply reading a series of
brief profiles containing varying content, perceivers
remembered personality traits they inferred about other
users. Trait information was remembered preferentially to
profile content.
Although absolute differences between conditions may
be small they were both statistically significant and
meaningful. Our overall numbers are low because of the
difficulty of using free recall rather than recognition to
identify other users. The recall task was challenging. Also,
trait profiles are remembered 30% more than semantic
profiles, and trait words trigger recall 20% more than
semantic words that were actually contained in the profile.
This finding led us to hypothesize that there may be
factors about the target profile that affect memory. We
therefore devised a second study to examine these factors.
Study 2
Study 1 demonstrated that users make spontaneous trait
inferences when profiles clearly imply traits. Therefore, we
see a difference between profiles crafted to imply a clear
personality and those not designed to do so. Are there other
factors affecting memory for traits? We used Study 1 as a
building block to identify factors of profiles that might be
related to recall. Since trait profiles in Study 1 cohered on a
common trait, perhaps coherence in general is related to
recall for profiles. Coherent profiles may allow participants
to form more structured impressions, and lead to better
memory. Again, we are interested in identifying models
that are easiest to process for users. Coherency may be one
dimension that makes social information easier to process.
Hypothesis. There is a positive relationship between profile
coherence and overall recall.
We assessed coherence using three measures:
1. Overall Coherence: How well do profile elements
fit together?
2. Number of Elements: How many particular
elements does the profile contain?
3. Specificity: How specific is each particular
Overall Coherence. Pilot study participants were asked to
rate the coherence of the 64 stimuli profiles (32 trait and 32
semantic). Profiles were broken into 3 segments. Three
participants were told to compare each part of the profile to
the other 2 parts and rate how well the parts ―went
together‖ using a 1-7 Likert scale. Interrater reliability was
good (α=0.97). Higher coherence scores are hypothesized to
be associated with higher recall.
Number of Elements. We asked a second group of pilot
participants to divide each profile into its constituent
elements. Nine participants were presented with all 64
profiles (trait and semantic). Participants were asked to
divide each profile into elements that were psychologically
meaningful for them by simply recording and labeling these
separate parts. Participants' breakdowns ranged from 1-10
elements. Interrater reliability was good (α=0.81). For
example, the profile in Figure 1: ―I am a typical chemistry
major attending MIT, with aspirations of either becoming a
college professor or becoming a pop star. I am an avid
player of videogames, (especially Nintendo).‖ might be
broken down as, ―1) I am a typical chemistry major
attending MIT 2) with aspirations of either becoming a
college professor 3)or a pop star. 4) I am an avid player of
videogames, (especially Nintendo).‖
participant felt that these 4 items roughly cohered
psychologically, they broke the profile into 4 elements. We
expect that profiles with fewer items are associated with
greater coherence and will be remembered better.
Specificity: A third group of three pilot study participants
were assigned to rate the specificity of the profiles. Profiles
were again broken into 3 parts. Participants rated the
specificity of each part of the profile from 1-7 on a Likert
scale. The final specificity score for each profile was a sum
of the three ratings. Again interrater reliability was good
(α=0.93). We expect that profiles with higher specificity
scores will be remembered better.
For purposes of illustration in Table 2 we included text
from the profiles with the highest and lowest scores in each
information category.
Because this
For each coherence measure we calculated the correlation
between coherence (e.g., low to high specificity of profile
elements) of the profiles with the recall scores for those
profiles we collected in study 1. Correlations for trait and
semantic profiles are also examined separately for each
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Changing user behaviors can be an opportunity for those smart enough to get up from their desktop computers and walk around before they get extinguished.
The dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period had no idea what was going to happen to them.
Unlike their modern day equivalents - traditional email marketers - the Cretaceous-Paleogene era dinosaurs had no data or information that would predict their imminent demise. After all, they were at the top of the food chain. They dominated their ecosystem. Abundant plant life bloomed and everything was great.
Until a huge rock from space crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula and exterminated them all. And some volcanoes erupted. It all happened pretty quickly from what we know from the geologic record.
But not every plant and animal on earth died. Many survived, and thrived, in a new world where the rules suddenly changed. It was a game-changer, an opportunity.
And in contrast to the dinosaurs, email marketers can predict where things are going. Email is going mobile. The challenge is that you cannot predict when a user will open on any given device.
This doesn't have to be a catastrophe. Changing user behaviors can be an opportunity for those smart enough to get up from their desktop computers and walk around before they get extinguished. That's where responsive design comes into play. Your email subscribers are on the move. You need to move with them.
The rise of the smartphone is clearly driving a renaissance for email. The signs are abundant. Just last week, Dropbox paid a reported $100 million in cash and stock for Mailbox, an email reader app that couldn't even onboard one million users. You can't run Mailbox on your laptop. It only runs on iOS devices that fit in the palm of your hand. It's an app designed for people who are mobile-centric.
Is that enough signal that things are changing?
According to digital marketing agency Knotice, 41 percent of commercial emails were opened on mobile devices in the second half of 2012.
And according to ExactTarget's 2012 Channel Preference Survey, 90 percent of smartphone owners access the same email account on mobile and desktop.
According to MarketingSherpa's 2013 Email Benchmark report, 58 percent of marketers are not designing for mobile.
Coincidentally in the same poll, 58 percent of the respondents claimed that the pervasiveness of mobile smartphones and tablets "will affect their email program in the next 12 months."
It's too late to be "mobile-first" in email. Email was desktop first. But for too many marketers, it's still "desktop only." Those are the dinosaur email marketers that I am talking about.
Your users are telling you something. They're voting with their thumbs. And all you have to do is look around and you'll see that it's time to get responsive and design for what we can predict: "Smartphones are here to stay."
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Ok guise. Here's our real Music Monday. We're talking about Taranafourousrex's "Jeon Won Diary". We haven't talked about Tara in a long time! If you haven't heard this great song (but really dumb video) yet, check it out here!
Ok, so, we're fiddling around with the Music Monday format a bit. A couple of things we want to do:
1) Include us talking with each other side by side so we can disagree, but not in an extended format.
2) Include the old Music Monday format that a lot of people complained about missing since it does add structure and flow
3) Having more segments within Music Monday, instead of a long video rant, then english talk, then dance talk, then showdown. Why not break the video talk part down into different segments as well?
We're still working out the kinks for it all. Hopefully next week we'll get more figured out.
Anyhow! On to Tara N4's"Jeon Won Diary!" A couple of things:
1) Soo Zee watched the video and had a different reaction to it than we did, because the old sounding sample of the song is actually from an old TV show, from which the old grandma and grandpa in T-ara's music video were actors. Cool! Though, we're still not totally sold on the old-sound with weird speak rapping and then the funktasticness of the rest of the song, but at least we can appreciate its origins a bit more.
2) Let's talk about sub-units here: now, this is going to be a difficult to talk about, and might get some people upset. Sub-units come about for many reasons. Some reasons might be obvious, like a member(s) acting in a drama and being unavailable. But I also believe that some sub-units are formed for reasons that will remain secret from the public, for example, some members are just more popular/unpopular/better dancers/singers/rappers/make more money and so on. The problem to me is this. The TaraN4 song was great but it seems they didn't need a whole band to make a great song. The rest of the members, then, seem excessive, no? Does having that many more members really contribute to the quality of the music? Does having more members result in better songs? They had backup dancers to fill in the missing dancers, so even that didn't seem to create a problem. Now if you're a huge fan of a particular group and your bias isn't in the sub-unit then yes, it will make a huge difference to you, but from an average kpop fans perspective, if it isn't a huge change, isn't that…weird?
We're not saying that the rest of the members suck and don't contribute anything of value. What we're saying instead is that having small groups doesn't seem to impact the music quality. Look at Orange Caramel, a sub-unit of After School, or TTS, a sub-unit of Girls' Generation. We loved the songs these sub-units put out, yet doesn't it seem like Orange Caramel is more active then After School? Plus, their music and video styles are totally different, so are they really a sub-unit or just a brand new group? Even when you look at TTS, you remember we complained that the title said Girls' Generation-TTS, and we didn't understand why, but we were told GG would rotate three members at a time creating different mini-sub groups of GG…yet that never happened. So what was the actual point of TTS? Why not let those three girls form their own little group without the attached image of being a member of GG? They're certainty popular enough to survive on their own, so it just seems confusing to us.
3) Let's talk money! Doesn't it seem kinda financially detrimental to have a lot of members, since the sales of the music are divided up so many more times? There are, what now: 7 (almost 8 if you count Dani) total members of T-ara, right? Dividing up the profits from a song by 4 rather than by 8 means the members get double the money for themselves. More money for the members means happier members, no? Financially speaking, as business owners now, I'd rather have less staff that work more efficiently, rather than more staff that do the same amount of work. Or is that a bad thing to say?
But on the other side, having more members means creating more choices for people to like, and you can divide the groups up to tour in different parts of the world to make more money, like with Super Junior and EX-O. You can also keep the group going if one person joins a drama or leaves for military, unlike in a smaller group like for example, Miss A, who seems to have fallen off the face of the planet expect for Suzy who has been acting in dramas non-stop since 2011 until now. I guess considering the business side of kpop, it's a difficult choice for entertainment companies.
So the question is:
Doesn't it seem like future Kpop bands should stick to three to four members? The music sounds just as good, and the members will get more money out of it, which will result in them being happier and less overworked. Agree or disagree? What are we missing out on here?
Anyhow, if you're digging this song as much as I am (Martina's half half on the song), pick it up either on iTunes or YesAsia. Oh! And you can check out this week's Bloopers here!
Sidenote: sorry to the SHINee fans who are upset that we didn't review "Why So Serious" We seriously didn't like anything about that song or video. We're usually SHINee fans. They're our second favorite group in Kpop, and everything they do is usually fanfreakingtastic, but Why So Serious was not good in our opinions, and we'd be miserable making a video about it. Sorry!


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