What Your Profile Picture (Scientifically) Says About You

You may post a picture of yourself in France, but people can still tell that you're not French. 
Researchers Chih-Mao Huang and Denise Park, of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and The National Taiwan University in Taipei, compared profiles of 200 Taiwanese and American students. To mix things up, some of the students in Taiwan were actually American citizens, and vice versa. 
The researchers found that it didn't matter where the participant was in the photo, as they tended to reveal the association between cultural background and style of picture. Americans were more like to have a close-up picture, with mainly their face showing, while those of a Taiwanese background generally had a zoomed-out photo where the background could be clearly seen.