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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:05AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:05AM (#761221)

    In other news:- [-] Pope catholic, bears shit in woods, The Pilgarlic will not win the Grand National this year, and Government throws money at universities for fatuous research.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:51AM

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:51AM (#761235) Journal

    > Pope catholic
    An interesting experiment would be to feed Francis' speeches into an AI together with marxist speeches and some catholic doctrine. See how the similarity scores go.

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