Does your avatar represent your personality?

Research suggests that avatars can show who are outward, friendly or even signs of pathology.

Recently, a team at York University has shown that social avatars reflect the realities of each person.

Accordingly, this research group conducted a test on a group of university students by asking this group of students to fill out the questionnaire to assess the five characteristics of the characteristics: outward, friendly, and open open, reliable, with mental illness. After that, the group of students were asked to create their own avatar using Weeworld.com.

Next, another group of students is asked to assess the personality of the student group and determine who they want to make friends with.

The research team found that, through the representative of group one, the second group of students could deduce those who were extroverted, who were friendly or who had mental illness, but did not play It is possible in which one will be open or who will be reliable.

The second group of students showed that they tend to be friends with people who can show their eyes, smiles and hair color (tend to choose people with brown hair). For those who have a avatar with short hair, a non-open attitude, black hair, wearing a hat or dark glasses (hiding their eyes), the rate of making friends is lower.

Research shows that people who show their eyes and smiles on avatars tend to be sympathetic to the opposite person .

The researchers warn that the avatar used in the study is at a basic level, so the results will not be suitable for people who use complex avatars. However, some previous studies have suggested that people often use avatars to express personal personality information.

A study in Canada in 2010 showed that people who show their personalities through avatars tend to choose people like them to make friends. This discovery was published in 'The Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin'.