PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Narcissism
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The wimpy kid and justin bieber: distinguishing self-esteem and narcissism. Self-esteem 90 minute lecture by dr. koestner. Baumeister suggests that we stop focusing on self- esteem. We should definitely not focus on boosting it as it can do damage to children. About 10 years ago, prof"s mum was cleaning out the basement and found a bunch of paperback books which belonged to him. He got excited because these were all books that he loved when he was a teenager. Writing my name on my paperback books as a teenager. On every book, he wrote the great rich koestner , Rich koestner the great , and rich the great koestner . He was trying to re-assure himself because at the time, he wasn"t feeling so great about himself he was lower in self-esteem at this point in his life. When he was going to school at columbia university, he met his best friend while traveling back and forth on the subway.