Psychster 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.
12.15.2007
YouJustGetMe 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!
11.15.2007
US News & World Reports psychophile Chris Wilson covers the launch of YouJustGetMe on the Facebook Platform. Check it out.
11.02.2007
Seattle Post Intelligencer's Venture blogger John Cook writes up Psychster and YouJustGetMe. Read it.
10.01.2007
Psychster invited to Social Computing workshop organized by MSU and Microsoft Research at the ACM Group 2007 Conference. See more.
09.25.2007
YouJustGetMe Application is launched on the Facebook Platform. In the first week, nearly 4,000 people add it. Add it yourself!
07.16.2007
Psychster partner 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!
07.05.2007
800 users join YouJustGetMe, making over 40 guesses of others' personality daily.
04.10.2007
YouJustGetMe launches to provide people with a fun experience guessing the personality of others and having their personalities guessed in return. Check it out!
11.07.2006
Psychster assists RIPL to determine the four psychographic segments of their prospective members.
02.22.2006
Psychster LLC is founded as a Washington state limited liability company.
A website either aligns with psychological tendencies 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?
Our work is both academic and market research driven: