Hey selfie lovers, new study says taking more smiling selfies makes you happy
A latest study conducted at University of California, Irvine, shows that taking more smiling selfies increases your chances of happiness.
In Short
- Study was conducted at University of California, Irvine.
- 41 students participated.
- Students claimed feeling "happier and more confident".
We have heard so many stories about how bad selfies are, how taking them could actually be a mental disorder, and about the times people even died while posing for selfies.
Well, this time, we have something nice to say about selfies.
A latest study has come up with results which shows taking more smiling selfies increases your chances of happiness.
Conducted at University of California, Irvine, some 41 students participated in the project over four weeks. They were assigned to take selfies and report about their moods.
At the end of the project, the students claimed that they felt "happier and more confident" for the rest of the day, even when they fake smiled for the selfies.
"You can engage in the act of being happy," said USC associate professor Mark Marino, who introduced this selfie-taking project into one of his writing classes. "This kind of self-reflection helps people identify both features, both who they want to see themselves as and who they are communicating themselves to be."
BUT...
At the same time, another UCLA associate professor Yalda Uhls warns that too many selfies could be "too much of a good thing".
"When we grew up, we took pictures of other people, of places; we reflected out instead of reflecting in," Uhls said.
Well, that makes sense. There's a thin line between self-satifaction and narcissism.
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