{"id":376,"date":"2008-10-16T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T12:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2008-10-16T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T18:49:44","slug":"narcissism-and-facebook-are-we-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/narcissism-and-facebook-are-we-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcissism and Facebook, are we surprised?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A study on Facebook and narcissism conducted at the University of Georgia was published in this month’s issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin<\/em> (which coincidentally was the first journal I ever subscribed to).<\/p>\n

“We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others,” said lead author Laura Buffardi, a doctoral student in psychology who co-authored the study with associate professor W. Keith Campbell. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems that everyone is always joking that Blogging\/Twittering\/Facebooking is about as narcissistic an act as we can think of, but apparently it can get clinical.<\/p>\n

“bleedin obvious,” writes one commenter on Physorg’s site<\/a>. But whether obvious or not, it still is worth investigating.<\/p>\n

“We’ve undergone a social change in the last four or five years and now almost every student manages their relationships through Facebook \u2013 something that few older people do,” Campbell said. “It’s a completely new social world that we’re just beginning to understand.” <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just have one question: If narcissism is when an individual “has an excessive need for admiration and affirmation” (thanks Wikipedia), then how does narcissism behave in asynchronous forms communication on the web such as Facebook?<\/p>\n

(thanks Katie for the link!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A study on Facebook and narcissism conducted at the University of Georgia was published in this month’s issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (which coincidentally was the first journal I ever subscribed to). “We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others,” said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-64","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}