psychology of social media
 11.25.2009 Psychster speaks at UW to Master's of Communication in Digital Media students about using research to determine whether highly produced online videos are wantched longer than amateur videos.  05.17.2009 Psychster returns to ICWSM this time with original research on what type of profile photo you should post to best convey your personality. Read it.  
01.15.2009PSRF invites Psychster to talk about Network Properties. David is honored to be invited back to PSRF, this time to talk about what the grand network that is the brain can teach us about designing social media. See the deck. 
01.08.2009NPR's Linton Weeks interviews Psychster on the tragic online suicide of Abraham Biggs and what it reveals about the psychology of social media. Read the story. 
01.05.2009YouJustGetMe Grows to over 14,000 registered members who have made over 22,000 guesses of each others' personality. Do people who visit your profile see you as you see yourself? Find out. 
08.21.2008YJGM named a top online psychology experiment. Psych Central and the New York Times Blog "Well" both honor YJGM with a best-of-web nod. Psych Central writes, "Lovely software design, simple to use, great functions...this is more than a social experiment, it's also social media." Over 11,000 members agree.Read the buzz. 
06.29.2008YJGM makes front page on Slashdot. A great blog about our ICWSM paper by Joe McCarthy of MyStrands was featured on Slashdot. YJGM grew to 8,500 members and the servers held out! Read the discusssion. 
04.01.2008Psychster presents at the Int'l Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. We reported findings from YouJustGetMe about which elements of your online profile help people understand your personality, and which don't. Read our paper. 
12.15.2007YouJustGetMe reaches 6,000 members and 10,000 personality guesses. And our first celebrity personality guessing contest is launched when psychologist Phil Zimbardo joins the site. Guess Dr. Z! 
11.15.2007US News & World Reports psychophile Chris Wilson covers the launch of YouJustGetMe on the Facebook Platform. Check it out. 
11.02.2007Seattle Post Intelligencer's Venture blogger John Cook writes up Psychster and YouJustGetMe. Read it. 
10.01.2007Psychster invited to Social Computing workshop organized by MSU and Microsoft Research at the ACM Group 2007 Conference. See more.
07.16.2007Psychster advisor Sam Gosling featured in US News & World Report. Reporter Chris Wilson interviewed Sam for an article exploring whether Facebook profiles faithfully represent their authors' personality. Take a look!
04.10.2007YouJustGetMe launches to provide people with a fun experience guessing the personality of others and having their personalities guessed in return. Check it out! 
11.07.2006Psychster assists RIPL to determine the four psychographic segments of their prospective members. 
02.22.2006Psychster LLC is founded as a Washington state limited liability company and later converted to Psychster Inc. |
Social media either aligns with human nature and is an explosive success, or it conflicts with them and is a failure. That is Psychster's philosophy. We are Seattle based Ph.D. social psychologists with expertise in the psychology of social networking, social media, and social computing. We believe people are people whether online or off, but they're more in control than ever. Isn't it time you learned what makes them tick?
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