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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:15AM (5 children)
People who like to take pictures of themselves, and post pictures of themselves on social media, trend more towards narcissism? Say it isn't so.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:25AM (2 children)
The obvious has been said
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday November 13 2018, @01:25AM (1 child)
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:54AM
I like posthumous selfies...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:52AM
Next up: the link between millennials, social media and lowering IQs.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:30AM
Anonymous poster confuses function with its derivative, hot action news, early at 10.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:34AM (7 children)
Not as bad as endlessly submitting aristarchus submissions. Alt-social media, as in anti-social rightwing narcissistic conservative disorder.
(Score: 3, Touché) by ikanreed on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:34AM (6 children)
Top tier redundant adjective pile there.
But on the subject of disorders, the summary is strange. Because one of the diagnostic criteria for NPD mentioned in the summary is "interfering with ability to live life"(among several others). Merely increasing the personality dimension of "narcissism" can't, on its own, "put you over the clinical cutoff" for the disorder, you have to check off several other boxes as well before you can be diagnosed.
Say what you want about psychology as a field, armchair psychology is way worse.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:39AM (4 children)
But one narcissistic prof I knew had his department chair contemplating suicide
A constant challenge to mental health professionals is how to get uninsightful crazies into treatment. In the case of schizophrenia specifically that like of insight is due to organic brain damage caused by the disease. If left untreated further damage will occur which is untreatible.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by kazzie on Tuesday November 13 2018, @07:52AM (3 children)
I"ll mod you insightful, just in case. ;)
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 13 2018, @08:14AM
For MDC, and TMB, and jmorris, #MeToo. Sleep well, you sociopaths!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:00AM (1 child)
there are ... oh ... 100 languages on the planet and maybe just as many writing system. they're all mostly sane people but cannot understand each other.
thus "sanity" is what the majority approves or in rare cases what the ruling class inflicts on the population.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:58PM
Not all assholes are narcissists. But all narcissists are assholes.
I am up to a count of 3 in my life of people that are full on narcissists. They literally can not see what they do. They are incapable of it. Only one of them is getting any sort of help.... by court order.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @09:47AM
Well they do seem to have trouble getting jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:05AM (1 child)
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
> 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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(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:00PM (1 child)
Behind the times. I've recently started researching the phenomena of hot women posting anonymous "pelfies" on reddit ... uh strictly for science huh huh huh
The main behavior that seems to encourage is shaving, I suppose otherwise trolls would post random shots of wigs claiming they're various women.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:32PM
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