What your Facebook picture says about your cultural background

What your Facebook picture says about your cultural background

What kind of profile picture do you have on Facebook?
Is it a close-up shot of your lovely face with little background visible?
Or is it zoomed out, so that you appear against a wider context?
The answer, according to a new study by psychologists in the USA, likely depends in part on your cultural ancestry.
Regardless of their current location, there was a significant association between cultural background and style of Facebook picture
Facebook users originally hailing from Taiwan were more likely to have a zoomed-out picture in which they were seen against a background context.
Users from the USA, by contrast, were more likely to have a close-up picture in which their face filled up more of the frame.


http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-your-facebook-picture-says-about.html