The science behind why we take selfies

KEY

Question 1

a)       True.” reading and responding correctly to other people's facial expressions is essential for successful social interactions.”

b)       False.” we have a very inaccurate representation of what our own faces look like at any given time.”

c)       True.”  when people are shown an image of themselves and asked to match it, they are unable to accurately produce the same facial expression without being able to see themselves.”

d)       False. “we have an image of ourselves that tends to be younger and more attractive than we actually are.”    

  

Question 2

a)       They have become so important because we are used to looking at images of other people, but we have no experience of looking at our own images.

b)       We take so many pictures of ourselves because we want to find an image which is similar to what we think we actually look like.

Question 3

a) trend                                    b) essential                 c) inaccurate      

d) pick / selecting                     e) altered

Question 4

a) James Kilner asked why we were so interested in taking selfies and how observing yourself differred from observing someone else.    

b) Despite being experts at recognizing other people’s faces, we have very Little experience of looking at our own faces.   

c) If people didn’t have a por representation of what they look like, they wouldn’t choose digitally altered images.