A person's selfie corresponds with their own self-evaluation of their personality. PHOTO: JKNEWSPOINT
Next time when you take a selfie with your friends, remember the way you take a selfie can actually reveal your personality, says a new study.
How you would describe your own personality is pretty much in sync with what kind of selfies you take.
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The team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore surveyed 123 popular selfie-takers from the website Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese micro-blogging platform, Bustle.com reported.
The participants took a personality test followed by a separate group of 107 students assessing them.
"A person's selfie corresponded well with their own self-evaluation of their personality," said researchers.
Researchers used 13 aspects of selfie-taking to develop a personality methodology. Here's the breakdown:
1. if you make a duckface, you score pretty highly on the emotional instability scale and are also possibly neurotic.
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2. If you hide the location of your selfie, you are pretty concerned with privacy.
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3. If you hold the camera low, you score highly on agreeableness, and are therefore probably awesome to be around.
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4. And if you smile or laugh, you are quite open to new experiences, and also love to laugh.
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5. If you look directly into the camera, you are super confident, revealed the results that appeared in the journal Computers in Human Behaviour.
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So did you manage to figure out which one(s) apply to you?
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