Taking selfies improves happiness, says study
Posted on: 28/Sep/2016 5:23:31 PM
A new study conducted by researchers at The University of California Irvine has shown that taking selfies on a daily basis improves your happiness. The study was published in the Psychology of Well-Being publication.
In the study, 41 students took part, completing a general questionnaire and informal interview about their happiness before the tests. The participants were split into three groups. The first group took daily selfies, the second group took photos of things which made them happy, and the third took photos of something they thought would make somebody else happy. During the four-week long study, the participants recorded how they were feeling at three points in the day using a smart phone app.
Say the researchers, You see a lot of reports in the media about the negative impacts of technology use, and we look very carefully at these issues here at UCI.But there have been expanded efforts over the past decade to study what’s become known as positive computing, and I think this study shows that sometimes our gadgets can offer benefits to users.
