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88KYLA BURKE (SUNY ONEONTA), MICHAEL FABER (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ONEONTA) Parasocial relationships (one-sided emotional connections with unattainable media characters) are becoming increasingly diversified by the relevance of social media. We present data from an online questionnaire measuring personality and social behavior variables believed to be related to PSRs. Research hypotheses include testing visual (versus nonvisual) content and character fictionality as contributors to PSR strength within social media. Investigations of the relative contributions of these variables to PSR strength are ongoing.POSTER 74HIKIKOMORI AND INTERNET ADDICTION IN US COLLEGE STUDENTSMAI TRAN (UNION COLLEGE), CAMERON KAY (UNION COLLEGE) We examined the association between Hikikomori and internet addiction in a sample of US undergraduate students (N = 437). Consistent with our preregistered hypotheses, we found a large positive correlation between the two constructs. Moreover, we found that the correlation did not differ from that observed among Japanese undergraduate students in a prior study. The present results indicate that social withdrawal could be a risk factor for internet addiction in the US (and vice versa).POSTER 75HOW RELATIONSHIP PARTNERS' BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS PREDICT ROMANTIC PARTNER EVALUATIONSFRANK HAGGERTY (ITHACA COLLEGE), RACHEL BRODY (ITHACA COLLEGE), MAGGIE FARBER (ITHACA COLLEGE), ALLIE RICHTER (ITHACA COLLEGE), EMMA HEINZE (ITHACA COLLEGE), NOELLE SETZER (ITHACA COLLEGE), MARY TOWNSEND (ITHACA COLLEGE), CHRISTIAN CANETE (ITHACA COLLEGE), LEIGH NATURALE (ITHACA COLLEGE), GRACE LILL (ITHACA COLLEGE), LEIGH ANN VAUGHN (ITHACA COLLEGE) Research suggests that some Big Five personality traits are more important for evaluating current or potential romantic partners than others, but much of this earlier research has been on samples from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic nations. In a large international dataset with participants who were in or not in a romantic relationship, we found that partners' perceived agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability related most strongly to relationship evaluations.POSTER 76IDENTITY LABELS AND PERCEPTIONS OF AUTISMLUCY NAPPER (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY), JESS COSTENBADER (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY), GAVIN FOX (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY), MINH QUANG LUONG (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY), MARGARET MUNLEY STONE (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY) The language used to describe autism has the potential to be stigmatizing. In this experiment, college students were randomized to read about either: a clerical assistant identified as autistic, a college student described as neurodivergent, an autistic college student, or a college student with no identity described. We found that there were differences in acceptance scores across conditions, suggesting that including information about identity (neurodivergent or autism in the non-college student conditions) increased acceptance.POSTER 77HOW OFTEN DOES WELLBEING NEWS REPORT RESEARCH PARTICIPANT DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS?AMY WANG (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), ANTONIO FREITAS (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), XIA ZHENG (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), ANNE MOYER (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), DIYA PATEL (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), SAMAIRA PAWA (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), HEEJOO SHIN (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), ELSIE WONG (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY) Past research has shown that scientific publications underreport participant demographic information. However, it has not been studied how often researchrelated news articles describe participant demographics. We conduct a content analysis of wellbeing research news from ten popular news outlets. We measure the rate that news articles report demographics, and whether this rate is associated with article publication year, readability, and wordcount. This study may provide insight into how research is portrayed to lay audiences.POSTER 78IMPACT OF \CHOICEALIX ALTO (CUNY GRADUATE CENTER), JOEL GINN (BOSTON COLLEGE), PHILLIP JAUREGUI, GREGG SPARKMAN (BOSTON COLLEGE) Discourse emphasizes the importance of \in voting. However, people may not be accurate in their perceptions of who is electable. The present 88