Scientists studied 1,001 selfies to learn how people use them to communicate and concluded that these photos can be classified into five distinct categories: “aesthetics,” “imagination,” “trait,” “state,” and “theory of mind.”

Scientists studied 1,001 selfies to learn how people use them to communicate and concluded that these photos can be classified into five distinct categories: “aesthetics,” “imagination,” “trait,” “state,” and “theory of mind.”