When posing for a selfie, you're hoping for a shot in which you look your best.
But if you want other people to find you attractive, it might be better to get someone else to take the picture, a study suggests.
Photos taken by other people are given higher ratings for attractiveness than ones we take ourselves, researchers found. They said this may be because people assume the selfie-taker is vain and "disdain the self-promotion".
Psychologists from the University of Toronto asked 198 students to take a selfie, and then took a separate picture of each of them. They then asked another group of 178 people to assess how attractive, likeable and narcissistic they thought the subjects of the selfies and non-selfies were.
The team found that the raters "perceived the selfies to look less attractive and less likable than the photos taken by others (as well as more narcissistic)".
