The Huffington Post Archives | Research & Innovation /research/tag/the-huffington-post/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Faculty of Health student's Facebook study sparks international media attention and debate /research/2010/09/09/faculty-of-health-students-facebook-study-sparks-international-media-attention-and-debate-2/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0000 /researchdev/2010/09/09/faculty-of-health-students-facebook-study-sparks-international-media-attention-and-debate-2/ Compelled to tell your 500 Facebook chums every time you can’t find your sunglasses? Want the world to know you look like Robert Pattison? Post new Photoshopped pictures every day? You, my friend, are narcissistic and insecure, wrote the Toronto Star Sept. 8. The Star was only one of Toronto's papers to cover Soraya Mehdizadeh’s […]

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]]> Compelled to tell your 500 chums every time you can’t find your sunglasses? Want the world to know you look like Robert Pattison? Post new Photoshopped pictures every day? You, my friend, are narcissistic and insecure, wrote the Sept. 8.

The Star was only one of Toronto's papers to cover.

“Everybody knows somebody like that,” Mehdizadeh, a psychology student in 91ŃÇɫ’s Faculty of Health, told the Star. “They’re updating their status every five minutes. They’re telling you what celebrity they look like. They’re posting pictures of themselves in a bikini.”

Her article was also covered in the , , , The Canadian Press online (via ) and . It was reported by Toronto’s 680 NEWS, CFRB Radio, and radio stations in Calgary, Regina, Edmonton and Moncton.

On Sept.22, the study was covered in New 91ŃÇÉ«, NY's .

Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, with files courtesy of YFile– 91ŃÇɫ’s daily e-bulletin.

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