Researchers who study selfies can focus their selfie-attentions on higher cognitive variables. Perhaps nowhere is this demonstrated better than in the Department of General Psychology and Methodology at the University of Bamberg, and perhaps nowhere in the Department of General Psychology and Methodology at the University of Bamberg is this demonstrated better then in this new study: […]
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Selfies and sharks, and statistical dangers
Comparisons of selfies and sharks, and of pretty much any pair of things, come out differently depending on how careful you are in making — or judging — the comparison. Gary Smith, of Ponona College, explains: We are now told that selfies are more than dangerous than sharks, with 8 deaths this year from shark […]
Side-bias in Smartphone Selfies
This study reveals that smartphone self-portraits may perhaps reveal something about left and right, maybe: “Self-Portraits: Smartphones Reveal a Side Bias in Non-Artists,” Nicola Bruno [pictured here, and who also recently did a study on an effect of red] and Marco Bertamini, PLoS ONE, 8(2), 2013, e55141. The authors, at the Universita di Parma, Italy and the University […]