Selfies Contributes To Happiness But People Taking Selfies 3 To 5 Times A Day May Have Psychopathic Traits

A Recent study suggest that if someone wanted to be happy? Just simply lift the smartphone, open its front camera, find the best angle, and click. Yeah! That's how simple it is to be happy. Taking selfies concludes that it could make a person happier.

Research further claimed that takings photos and sharing it to other people or to their social media accounts have positive effects both emotional and psychological states. In 2014, As per the report obtained by The Guardian, Google estimated that over 93 million selfies a day were being posted on the Android phones alone.

Moreover, according to Pew Research Center, roughly around 91percent of teenagers and adolescents have posted their self-portrait online. But everyone isn't pleased in taking selfies and they're not actually having fun. Individuals who are mostly 40 years of age are the ones that are not enjoying, maybe because it's not their era and definitely not their thing since they were born wherein the camera isn't just widely spread as of now.

But contrary to the reports that have mentioned the positive effects of taking selfies, another research from Ohio State University stating that in the year 2014, posting selfies on the social networking sites are most known to be narcissistic and have psychopathic traits, University Herald reported.

Taking serious selfies that are done more than three to five times a day can now be considered a disease and this kind of behavior are also accompanied with a body dysmorphic disorder. The body dysmorphic disorder is becoming obsessed with the imperfections of one's appearance.

Elaborated by Dr. David Veale that people with Body Dysmorphic Disease use selfie as their way of checking their appearance - just to see if they're ugly, as it is what they feel. The study that claimed taking selfies can make people happy cannot entirely be true. The probability of it was small.

Yu Chen who leads the research didn't suggest that selfies can make people happy. Instead, she implies that it is the smile that makes them happy.