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Excessive Posting of Selfies is Associated with Increase in Narcissism

posted by martyb on Monday November 12 2018, @11:59PM   
from the mirror-mirror-on-the-wall... dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Science Daily:

A new study has established that excessive use of social media, in particular the posting of images and selfies, is associated with a subsequent increase in narcissism.
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They also assessed the participants' usage of social media -- including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat -- during that same period.

Narcissism is a personality characteristic that can involve grandiose exhibitionism, beliefs relating to entitlement, and exploiting others.

Those who used social media excessively, through visual postings, displayed an average 25% increase in such narcissistic traits over the four months of the study.

This increase took many of these participants above the clinical cut-off for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, according to the measurement scale used.

TLDR: Social media encourages narcissism.

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Original Submission

• Re:Say it ain't - oh Re:Say it ain't - oh (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday November 13 2018, @01:25AM (1 child)

  by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday November 13 2018, @01:25AM (#761123)

  It's even worse than before: Selfie cameras used to be really crummy. Now they're pretty good AND they run filters to make your skin look perfect and correct your face features.
  Enhanced reality selfies, better than mirrors for narcissists.

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• Re:Say it ain't - oh (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:54AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:54AM (#761167)

  I like posthumous selfies...

  toot toot peanut butter [up.com]...

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