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Selfie-Centred
Muse Magazine
|July 2017
Taking and posting certain types of selfies can have specific effects on mood and outlook. Are you making the most of yours?
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Next time you wonder whether that third selfie makes you a narcissist, consider a study suggesting that taking and sharing photos of yourself may increase your happiness level. The daily practice of taking and sharing of certain types of images correlated with more positive feelings. What’s more, taking certain types of selfies might affect us differently according to the study published in the Psychology of WellBeing. Researchers sought to establish the effect of taking three photo types, each with a different implicit goal: enhancing self-perception, in which people manipula
This story is from the July 2017 edition of Muse Magazine.
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