{"id":195801,"date":"2024-09-06T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/psychologists-reveals-the-morbid-reason-we-take-so-many-selfies"},"modified":"2024-09-06T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:27:46","slug":"psychologists-reveals-the-morbid-reason-we-take-so-many-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/psychologists-reveals-the-morbid-reason-we-take-so-many-selfies","title":{"rendered":"Psychologists reveals the morbid reason we take so many selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psychologists-reveals-the-morbid-reason-we-take-so-many-selfies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do we take so many selfies? Because we are afraid of dying, say psychologists.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Many of us have phones filled with selfies documenting everything from holidays to duvet days.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s behind the modern fascination with taking photos of ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>Psychologists have come up with a rather morbid answer: fear of dying.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/israel\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6c4589e0-6196-11ef-9ddc-e9035bbc772e\">Tel Aviv<\/a> University in <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/israel-hamas-conflict\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6c469b50-6196-11ef-9ddc-e9035bbc772e\">Israel<\/a> quizzed 100 students on the motivations behind their selfie-taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we take so many selfies? Because we are afraid of dying, say psychologists. Many of us have phones filled with selfies documenting everything from holidays to duvet days. But what\u2019s behind the modern fascination with taking photos of ourselves? Psychologists have come up with a rather morbid answer: fear of dying. Researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}