In the study out of Dr. Rosen’s lab mentioned earlier in this chapter with respect to symptoms of depression, three different uses of technology predicted increased symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder: having more Facebook friends (the opposite result found for depressive symptoms), using Facebook more on a daily basis, and using Facebook more for managing one’s impression including posting comments and/or posting pictures of oneself.56 These Facebook behaviors may reflect an individual’s baseline difficulties with cognitive control, including an inability to attend to material that
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