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Description: This study replication will assess the relationship between self-esteem and self-disclosure on social media, specifically on Facebook. It will measure the participants' perception of comfort and safety of expressing oneself and disclosing personal information on social media. The study will gauge their interest on advantages of disclosing on Facebook versus in-person, and attempt to account for a variable the originators of the study did not report, which is whether the presence of the researcher near the participant at the time of measurement affects the study results. Two groups, each made of four students, will conduct a replication of this study originally done by Forest and wood (2012). The students will perform the replication study as a part of their Research Methods psychology class, led by Professor Dr. Nicole Legate and Sean Rafajko, graduate student, at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois. The materials for the study are located in the OSF Storage of the "Project: Face Looker- specific materials" component. Clarifications: We are planning to compare the results between running the participants through the online and lab methods. The participants will be given the opportunity to indicate the section they want to be a part of through the SONA system. The two groups will be running the study separately, collecting two distinct sets of participants as their sample (totaling n=80 per group, with n=40 per online/in-person section). Each group will be running the participants through both the online and in-person methods.