Selfie Indulgence: Self-Favoring Biases in Perceptions of Selfies

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 588-596

  Re, Daniel E ^a   Wang, Sylvia A ^a   He, Joyce C ^a   Rule, Nicholas O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

attractiveness; likability; meta perception; narcissism; person perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978216790     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550616644299     Document Type: Article

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