Study links selfies, happiness

Regularly snapping selfies with your smartphone and sharing photos with your friends can help make you a happier person, according to computer scientists. In a first-of-its-kind study published just before back-to-school season, the authors found that students can combat the blues with some simple, deliberate actions on their mobile devices.

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Maybe looking at yourself smiling reinforces a positive emotion?

Is vanity a positive emotion? but too much vanity becomes negative?

Wasn’t there a similar study done some time ago?

Kim Kardashian must be the happiest person on the planet.

So are you happier just taking the selfie or sharing the pic where people can like it and tell you how amazing you look?

CrazyNeutrino said:

Study links selfies, happiness

Regularly snapping selfies with your smartphone and sharing photos with your friends can help make you a happier person, according to computer scientists. In a first-of-its-kind study published just before back-to-school season, the authors found that students can combat the blues with some simple, deliberate actions on their mobile devices.

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The results of the study out of UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences were published recently in the Psychology of Well-Being.

ROFL. Psychology of Well-Being. ROFL.

Ive never taken selfies

Here is a selfie kit for the iphone

It’s a perfectly cromulent study of 41 people published in a hippie rag.

Divine Angel said:

It’s a perfectly cromulent study of 41 people published in a hippie rag.

I just blew up http://retractionwatch.com/ by entering “Psychology of Well-Being” as a search term.

hang on i’ll suck my cheeks in (lot of that on FB with the ladies)

I am not fond of photos being taken.

monkey skipper said:

I am not fond of photos being taken.

You don’t say?!?

:-P

Seems to me if you are happy, self confident and living it large you would be more likely to post selfies.

Witty Rejoinder said:

monkey skipper said:

I am not fond of photos being taken.

You don’t say?!?

:-P

i take photos of the environment not often people. there was a lady on straddie wanted a selfie with me! i said no.

AwesomeO said:

Seems to me if you are happy, self confident and living it large you would be more likely to post selfies.

i think it is a young person sub- culture

i prefer to be identified by other means ,,,the achiever behind the scenes

I know a former forumite selfie addict who has had periods of intense sadness. Perhaps dumping those sad emotions to the web have helped.