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