Cognitive Complexity and Communicative Context: Reflection of User Intelligence in Social Media Texts

IF 0.5 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.31857/s020595920024352-3

Е. A. Valueva

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Abstract

The focus of this article is the reflection of intelligence as ability in social media texts. The authors have developed a model of communicative environments according to which the manifestation of intelligence in a message depends on the communicative situation in which the information is transmitted. Thus, the cognitive complexity of texts is a consequence not only of the author's intellectual capacity, but also of his willingness and ability to adapt the complexity of messages to the characteristics of the recipient. This paper analyses data from individual social media profiles in relation to user intelligence test scores, as well as similar data obtained at a regional level. The study involved 438 subjects who took an intelligence test and provided access to their social media profiles. Facebook users were found to be, on average, more intelligent than VKontakte users, posting more posts containing text, posting less often overall. No significant differences in post characteristics were found between the two social networks. However, differences in the nature of the relationship between intelligence and cognitive complexity of messages were demonstrated for different social networks and for male and female subsamples of users. Correlations were found to be higher at the regional level compared to the individual level, higher for Facebook compared to VKontakte and higher for men compared to women. It is concluded that indicators of texts’ cognitive complexity from social media do reflect the intelligence of their authors, but the extent of this reflection depends on the characteristics of the communicative situation

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认知复杂性与交际语境:用户智能在社交媒体文本中的反映

这篇文章的重点是智力作为能力在社交媒体文本中的反映。作者开发了一种交流环境模型，根据该模型，信息中智能的表现取决于信息传播的交流情境。因此，文本的认知复杂性不仅是作者智力能力的结果，也是作者根据接受者的特点调整信息复杂性的意愿和能力的结果。本文分析了个人社交媒体资料中与用户智力测试分数相关的数据，以及在区域层面获得的类似数据。这项研究涉及438名受试者，他们参加了智力测试，并提供了他们的社交媒体资料。研究发现，平均而言，Facebook用户比VKontakte用户更聪明，他们发布的包含文字的帖子更多，但总体上发帖的频率更低。在两个社交网络之间，职位特征没有显著差异。然而，在不同的社交网络和男性和女性用户子样本中，智力和信息认知复杂性之间关系的本质存在差异。研究发现，地区层面的相关性高于个人层面，Facebook的相关性高于VKontakte，男性的相关性高于女性。研究得出结论，社交媒体文本认知复杂性的指标确实反映了作者的智力，但这种反映的程度取决于交际情境的特征

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Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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60.00%

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期刊介绍： Psikhologicheskii zhurnal is a publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the RAS Institute of Psychology. This determines its contents, academical style, and the form of papers published in it. The journal publishes the papers on the fundamental problems of psychology, its methodological, theoretical, and experimental foundations, and also the results of the investigations connected with the applied problems of social and scientific life. The discussions published on the page of the journal contribute to the revelation of general tendencies in the development of psychology and its approximation to practice.