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Food, families and fun on the Fourth of July makes Independence Day a target rich environment for “selfies.”  Today on the Morning News I referenced “selfies”  as a step away from a national healthier attitude of service and ”self” reliance and one marker on the conversational path about the good old days.The UK Daily Mail reports selfies are one trend that just won't go away, and new data shows the self-absorbed expressions may actually say more about us than we think.

University of Singapore researchers had more than 600 users of the social networking site Weibo-- dubbed the "Chinese Twitter"-- fill out questionnaire about their personality. Researchers then checked out selfies the participants had posted, and correlated them with personality traits revealed by the questionnaires.

What do you think they discovered?  They found the pose you make, the location you take the photo in, and even the angle the photo is taken from all reveal aspects of your personality.

The pictures revealed cues to selfie owners' degree of agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. They discovered that smiling in a selfies and generally looking happy/positive was associated with agreeableness, defined as being a person's tendency towards being cooperative and compassionate.

Taking a photograph from below your face as opposed to above was also associated with agreeableness, while taking a photo in a non-private place or not revealing where you took a photo was associated with conscientiousness. Those who post photos of themselves making a "duckface" were found to have higher levels of neuroticism, which is one's tendency to experience unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and anger, and is a measure of emotional stability. (Daily Mail)

This Fourth of July may all your selfies be duckfaceless and may the spirit of patriotism and service above self wash over you in Red, White and Blue

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