New Trends: Neo-Narcissism Fueled by the Selfie Boom

SELFIES AND NARCISSISM –

She's beautiful, rich, and famous. She has it all, at least on paper. And to make no secret of her unbridled egocentrism, Kim Kardashian, queen of American reality TV and wife of rapper Kanye West, unabashedly embraces the latest fad born from the Internet's burgeoning belly: fill the web with your selfies, self-portraitsKim has even made a book of pictures about it, which is being released in the United States and has already been heralded as a bestseller. Title: Selfish, which plays on the word and also identifies a new form of Selfishness widespread.

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SELFISH, THE PICTURE BOOK BY KIM KARDASHIAN –

The couple of the moment, making headlines around the world, captures one of the new trends, not just in America. Instagram now has over 60 million new posts a day, and 55 percent of them are selfies. It's a huge trend in Italy, too., where Instagram already has 4 million subscribers and where 66 percent of students say they are into selfie photography.The selfie boom is a sign of a rampant neo-narcissism, which is even being studied in the scientific world. A group of researchers from Ohio University have just published, in the journal Personality and Individuality Differences, The results of a survey of 800 men aged 14 to 40. The key finding: selfie fever, with its accompanying self-satisfaction, signals a "narcissistic psychopathy." Predominantly male.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE A NARCISSIST –

But how do you recognize a narcissist? First of all, by the plus sign. Their attitude is to always appear as the most intelligent, the most capable, the most attractive. Then, by their extreme tendency toward competition and self-celebration, with very evident character disorders: they react to criticism with anger, are presumptuous, and completely lack self-control. empathy and irony. Cultivate envy, the name Kim and Kanye gave their daughter. A portrait that, according to the latest Censis report, now closely concerns Italians. They have become, through selfies, a nation of narcissists.

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