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MADISON, Wis., May 31 () -- A Facebook profile is an idealized version of self that can provide beneficial psychological effects and influence behavior, U.S. researchers say.A person spending just 5 minutes examining their own Facebook profile full of photos and posts selected for the eyes of family,[url=http://www.hotyoupro.com]The north face jackets sale[/url], friends and acquaintances can experience a significant boost in self-esteem, a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said.Catalina Toma, a professor of communication arts, used a procedure known as the Implicit Association Test to measure Facebook users' self-esteem after they spent time looking at their profiles.The test measures how quickly participants associate positive or negative adjectives with words such as me, my, I and myself."If you have high self-esteem, then you can very quickly associate words related to yourself with positive evaluations but have a difficult time associating words related to yourself with negative evaluations," Toma said.She said she chose to use the Implicit Association Test because it cannot be faked, unlike more traditional self-reporting tools."Our culture places great value on having high self-esteem. For this reason, people typically inflate their level of self-esteem in self-report questionnaires," she said. "The Implicit Association Test removes this bias."The findings suggest social network use and self-perception are strongly linked,[url=http://www.trueireligion.com]True Religion Sale[/url], the researchers said.