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SELF-CHECK What Your Social Media Habits Say About You Animated by Evelvaii · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Psych2Goers, welcome back to another brand new video. Standing
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  Speaker 1: on the counter in your bathroom, you eagerly take your
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  Speaker 1: well-lit selfie. 30 minutes of scrolling through filters later, you
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  Speaker 1: post it to social media. But then, as you wait
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  Speaker 1: for the likes to start rolling in, have you ever wondered,
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  Speaker 1: what does this say about me? What do any of
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  Speaker 1: my posts say about me? Believe it or not, our
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  Speaker 1: social media habits can reveal a lot about us. One
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  Speaker 1: research study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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  Speaker 1: looked at four studies that examined the interface between how
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  Speaker 1: individuals network their friendships and their attachment styles. Their findings?
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  Speaker 1: Our social network behavior is closely connected to our attachment style.
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  Speaker 1: Considering our attachment style can influence how we pick our partners,
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  Speaker 1: how we develop friendships, and how we end them, it's
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  Speaker 1: best to look at our social media habits now all
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  Speaker 1: in an effort to see what it says about our
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  Speaker 1: attachment style, and more importantly, what it says about us.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, posting darker photos. NPR's Angus Chen once reported
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  Speaker 1: that your social media photos could suggest whether or not
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  Speaker 1: you're depressed. Harvard researchers Andrew G. Reese and Christopher M.
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  Speaker 1: Danforth wanted to test this theory. Researchers created a computer
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  Speaker 1: script that would examine individuals' Instagram posts. The computer script
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  Speaker 1: accurately assessed whether individuals were depressed. they discovered that photos
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  Speaker 1: posted by depressed individuals were more likely to be bluer, grayer,
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  Speaker 1: and darker. They also found humans aren't the best predictors
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  Speaker 1: of depression. When it comes to assessing whether a photo
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  Speaker 1: is happy or sad, human ratings of photos were found
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  Speaker 1: to be weaker predictors of depression and were uncorrelated with
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  Speaker 1: computationally generated features. Number two, deleting photos without likes. Do
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  Speaker 1: you post on social media often? Do you obsessively monitor
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  Speaker 1: the number of likes of your posts? especially her selfies.
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  Speaker 1: Based on a study by Penn State University, your behavior
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  Speaker 1: on social networks like Instagram and Facebook can tell us
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  Speaker 1: how old you are. A common behavior that teenagers engage
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  Speaker 1: in on Instagram is deleting photos that don't get enough likes.
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  Speaker 1: Dongwon Lee, an associate professor of the College of Information
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  Speaker 1: Sciences and Technology at Penn State University, says teens want
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  Speaker 1: to be very popular, so they're very conscious of the
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  Speaker 1: likes they're getting. According to the studies, it was also
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  Speaker 1: shown that adults generally post photos with diversified topics in mind,
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  Speaker 1: while most teens post photos that reflect their current mood.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, over filtering or enhancing selfies. Posting that highly
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  Speaker 1: edited photo of yourself may not only make others believe
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  Speaker 1: that's how you truly look, but your self image of
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  Speaker 1: yourself may change drastically as well. A study from researchers
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  Speaker 1: at Australia's La Trobe University found that people who share
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  Speaker 1: selfies more often were reported to have significantly higher over-evaluation
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  Speaker 1: of shape and weight, body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and internalization
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  Speaker 1: of the thin ideal. Number four, not using filters on
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  Speaker 1: your photos. Okay, let's say you don't use filters in
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  Speaker 1: your posts. What does this say about you? In the
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  Speaker 1: same study by Harvard researchers, Reese and Danforth, they found
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  Speaker 1: those who are depressed are less likely to filter their photos.
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  Speaker 1: It sort of makes sense because filters usually brighten up
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  Speaker 1: and enhance the contrast of the overall photo, which might
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  Speaker 1: not reflect the emotional state of the depressed individual. Number five,
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  Speaker 1: harsh comments and gossip. You may think throwing out a
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  Speaker 1: single negative comment or two on a post won't matter.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, will your followers really see it? Or what
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  Speaker 1: about that recent post where you spread a bit of gossip?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people find negative comments and gossip as
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  Speaker 1: signs you're secretly an angry person. It shows that you're
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  Speaker 1: happy to spread hate about someone online for the world
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  Speaker 1: to see forever. Why spread hate after all? Number six,
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  Speaker 1: selfie after selfie. Apparently, according to research, psychopaths tend to
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  Speaker 1: post selfie after selfie. Say what? It might just be so.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers from Ohio State University found that people who posted
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  Speaker 1: many enhanced selfies one after another held a higher score
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  Speaker 1: on measures of narcissism and psychopathy. Obviously not all who
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  Speaker 1: post that many selfies are psychopaths, but it could also
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  Speaker 1: be an indication that you could have a higher than
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  Speaker 1: average level of antisocial traits. Not only that, according to
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  Speaker 1: psychologist Sarah Schweitz, PsyD, if you're posting these only me
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  Speaker 1: photos on social media, you might give people the impression
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  Speaker 1: that you're full of yourself. Seven, you notice your online
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  Speaker 1: friendships are disappearing. So you can't help but notice your
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  Speaker 1: social networks are disappearing in front of you. You're losing followers,
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  Speaker 1: you're not getting as many likes. Well, one reason your
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  Speaker 1: followers are dwindling down, according to researchers, may be due
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  Speaker 1: to attachment anxiety. Researchers hypothesized that those with attachment anxiety
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  Speaker 1: may often give off an overwhelming, intrusive, or demanding vibe
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  Speaker 1: in their posts. Yeah, that's right, I said vibe. The
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  Speaker 1: sad thing is, those who worry about losing their connections
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  Speaker 1: and friends are more likely to slowly start to lose
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  Speaker 1: a large number of their networks, according to researchers. Some
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  Speaker 1: may show they wanna control a certain field or hang
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  Speaker 1: around their friends more. In response, some people may feel
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  Speaker 1: intimidated by these needs and pull away without realizing it.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers say those with this anxiety often end up driving
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  Speaker 1: away the friends they wanted to make and keep so desperately. Eight,
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  Speaker 1: following strangers on social media. One study from researchers at
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  Speaker 1: Pace University found that following strangers may not always have
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  Speaker 1: a positive effect. The researchers state that more frequent Instagram
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  Speaker 1: use has negative associations for people who follow more strangers,
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  Speaker 1: but positive associations for people who follow fewer strangers with
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  Speaker 1: social comparison and depressive symptoms. Number nine, posting workout photos.
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  Speaker 1: You should feel great about improving your health and working
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  Speaker 1: out at the gym. Exercising often is great in strengthening
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  Speaker 1: your muscles, increasing stamina, and improving your overall physical health.
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  Speaker 1: But one study found that sharing inspiring images of your
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  Speaker 1: workout body may have a negative effect. The study found
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  Speaker 1: that people who posted fitspiration or fitspo photos scored significantly
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  Speaker 1: higher on the drive for thinness, bulimia, the drive for muscularity,
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  Speaker 1: and compulsive exercise. They also found that a fifth of
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  Speaker 1: the subjects were at risk for being diagnosed with a
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  Speaker 1: clinical eating disorder, as compared to 4.3% of the subject
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  Speaker 1: group that opted out of posting workout photos. And 10,
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  Speaker 1: lack of interaction. Have you ever heard of Instagram Broadcasting?
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  Speaker 1: It's a behavior that's been linked to higher levels of loneliness,
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  Speaker 1: according to Chia-Chen Yang of the University of Memphis. This
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  Speaker 1: behavior is marked by uploading photos without tagging someone or
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  Speaker 1: often posting photos or updates that are not directed to
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  Speaker 1: people in your life. Interacting and socializing with others on
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  Speaker 1: social media is correlated with being less lonely. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're not socializing with others on social media often, you
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  Speaker 1: may feel a bit more lonely in the long run.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you don't get attachment anxiety, feel free
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and start commenting and reaching out
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  Speaker 1: to the friends you wish to keep close. It is
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  Speaker 1: called social media after all. So what social media habits
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  Speaker 1: do you possess? What do they say about you? Share
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