The Cult of Selfies: Healthy Self Love or Selfishness

Inside The Mind of Teens and Tweens

English - September 02, 2015 23:07 - 9 minutes - 20 Bytes - ★★★★ - 46 ratings
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We all know that teens love selfies. Today we ask whether the teen selfie trend is just part of the normal process of developing self-awareness or a preface to selfishness.

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Heather Wolpert-Gawron is an award-winning middle school teacher in Los Angeles. She has authored workbooks on teaching Internet Literacy. Dr. Jann Gumbiner is a licensed psychologist specializing in child and adolescent psychology and writes a blog for Psychology Today titled The Teenage Mind.