Separation Anxiety

Now that there’s no escaping the digital world, research is getting more serious about what happens to personalities that are incessantly on. “The e-personality is more impulse-driven and more narcissistic; it gives itself permission to explore or seek out more morbid subjects; it regresses to earlier developmental stages that are more about action without heed to consequences; and it has a more grandiose view of itself.”

Published: Jan 12, 2011
Length: 12 minutes (3,148 words)