A group of 5 undergraduate Michigan State students (Katie Solomon, Danielle Stewart, Jaaz Catterall, Lindsey Beaver, & Steven Epstein) conducted a direct+ replication of Study 1 in Forest & Wood (2012) under the guidance of PhD student Carol Tweten and Faculty Richard E. Lucas.
After completing the self-esteem items and Facebook self-disclosure items as part of this replication, participants were asked additional questions about their personality and social media usage. They were also asked to provide us their Twitter Handle (@Name), which we will use to gather their public tweets, or posts. We will then content-code them in a manner similar to that of Forest & Wood's (2012) Studies 2 and 3.
Below is a timeline of the project.
**Timeline**
IRB
* Applied: March 14, 2016
* Approved: March 16, 2016
Data Collection
* Began collecting data the week of March 21, 2016
* Concluded data collection mid-April, 2016.
Analysis
* Conducted analyses April/May 2016.
* Compiled R Markdown file of results September/October 2016.
Presentation(s)
* Poster presented at Michigan State University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF): April 8, 2016