Narcissism is a word that I had not heard until I got into my college English class. According to the Webster’s college dictionary, narcissism is defined as the excessive love of oneself. It is at the center of a professor named Jean M. Twenge’s experiments. She is the lead researcher of the experimental questions which is what is narcissism and why is it prevalent in today’s modern generation. She claims that narcissism is an evil attribute in human nature and she tends to prove its abundance with her research. In her research questionnaires posed towards young youths, she asks question such as am I special? And if I ruled the world would it be a better place? In order to test narcissism in our generation
Those question’s reply do hold strong evidential factors that indicates our generation . This is because if you ask anyone if they are special the obvious reply would be yes. The I pose to Twenge is does she feel she is special? I bet with her degrees, how hard she has worked to obtain them and the fact that people are paying attention to her claims on narcissism, she would feel enormously special.
What I mean is that her ideas about narcissism may be authentic, but her experimental methods are inadequate.
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Hey I liked this post. You are right she probably does feel pretty special from all the attention we are giving her work. Who wouldn't be right? Another thing about the questions she asked are that they (Like Greenberg brougt up) are extremely vague. This "I am a special person" thing, does it mean think I'm special to the world, to just my family, to my friends, special in the sense that I am unique, or what? Obviously you would seem narcissistic to think you are sepcial to everybody, but theres nothing wrong with thinking you're important to people close to you. So even if the response "yes" does imply narcissism, I agree that her methods can in no way be consistent without eliminating the personal interpretation of the questions. Good post.
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