Narcissistic personality disorder

American Culture: Why Today’s Generation is Not Narcissistic In today’s day and age, it is easy to fall into the trap of focusing on only oneself and not anyone or anything else. It is easy to get so caught up in social media and the excitement of seeing how many likes one might get on Instagram or how many retweets on Twitter. It is easy to become nearly obsessed with tangible items that are of no emotional value. It is so compelling and fun and it is part of this generation’s culture, but in…

Schools teach children to always “Love Yourself” when it comes to creating higher self-esteem. When students get used to this aphorism, it creates an oblivious personality where the GenMe’er only relies on his/herself. In the book Generation Me, Twenge observed that, “Instead of asking for a balanced treatment of a topic, however, the test asks for the student to ‘develop your point of view on the issue’... What’s…

Effects of Societal Shifts on Human Empathy History has shown that mankind has the natural tendency to evolve. Humans have the unrelenting desire to aspire for better things; for example, people have evolved from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the age of discovery to the age of enlightenment, and the industrial revolution to the multimedia age. Regardless of all the changes that humans have made, there is one thing that always remains the same: the interactions between one person and…

This past semester, I worked with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of South Niagara over the Easter weekend for their annual Easter Egg Hunt. This is a charitable event that raises funds for the organization with the help of the City of Welland as well as the Welland firefighters, both volunteer and paid. Also, with the aid of many, many volunteers, the event almost always runs as planned. I have helped at this event for the past two years with friends. Both years, my friends and I have painted faces…

Social Media vs. Social You: Do you have hands to hold, or keys to click? Over the past decade, our dependence on social media has actually decreased our social skills. Social media is glorified for all the neat features that it might offer, but people often do not see the negative affects it has. We often use social media to highlight the important parts of our lives or make it seem we live an idyllic life. While we are so drawn to social media we are missing out on key parts of our lives.…

Are Millennials the Most Desensitized Generation to Violence in Media? Violence is an ever-present theme throughout all of time. From a young age, children are exposed to violence through a plethora of both expected and unexpected sources. Nearly every movie, television show, book, etc. features at least once scene with some sort of violent event. Even religious scriptures such as the Bible, the Torah, and the Qur’an depict accounts and stories of graphic violence. At what point does becoming…

When it comes to millennials, the older generations seem to think that they are extremely narcissistic compared to them when they were the same age. Of course, that is not the case. While most adults seem to take the same stance on millennials, Brook Lea Foster does not. Brook Lea Foster understands that millennials and previous generations are not much different in terms of being narcissistic. Narcissism is not any more present then it was in the baby boomer age or other generations. Around…

In October 2014, the movie Whiplash was released. Aside from being an emotional thriller, Whiplash brought to light the idea of praise versus punishment. Terrence Fletcher, an abusive yet talented jazz conductor played by J.K. Simmons spars with his prodigal student, Andrew Neimann, played by Miles Teller. Throughout the movie, while Fletcher is throwing chairs and making students cry, the underlying question lingers in viewers’ minds: is punishment or praise a more effective tool for success?…

self-centered and narcissistic, there are also researchers like Kali Trzesniewski and M. Brent Donnellan, who have negated every study by Twenge and her college’s. The studies that “prove” that narcissism is more prominent in recent decades then past ones have so many flaws that any conclusion that could be drawn from them, are false. In 2008, Twenge, Konrath, Foster, Campbell, and Bushman, published a study that concluded that narcissism in recent generations is on the rise. By examining…

Smart And Narcissistic People Alix Spiegel, author of “Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning”, which was published on November 12, 2012 by National Public Radio, Spiegel claims that there are difference in Eastern and Western cultures in how persuade the struggles. Spiegel regards that how the experience of intellectual struggle in East and West. Spiegel also reports that the struggles in Eastern cultures is foreseeable part of learning process. Spiegel concludes…