CAS PS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Narcissism, Learned Helplessness, Cognitive Bias

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Our overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth. Research suggests that promoting self-esteem in children would backfire and they might encounter challenges later on because they wouldn"t know how to bounce back from failure. Central feature: a positive and inflated view of the self. People who don"t care that they hurt other people"s feelings, feel that they can step on other people to get what they want. Twenge looked at 85 samples of 16,275 college students who filled out npi (narcissistic test) between 1979 and 2006. College students in 2000"s were more narcissistic than in the previous decades. The increase in narcissistic tendencies was especially steep between. This change was especially large in women. Men still score higher than women but there isn"t as much of a difference anymore. Women may be catching up because of changes in women"s roles and empowerment movements. In certain jobs this may be healthy but it depends on how researchers define healthy .

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