Personality disorders

Narcissism on social media: Reality behind the screen It seems as if everyone wants to be the person with the most likes, best angled photos, or the most followed/ most friends. The reality of what they are accomplishing is becoming more and more narcissistic. If people ask any young girl or boy starting at age of 12, if they have accounts on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. they are more likely to say “yes.” However, if you ask them why they have accounts,…

Grendel; Good or Evil? Many wonder about the beast of Beowulf and whether he is evil, or just a lonely beast in a world full of humans. The readers, as humans, see the monstrous acts performed by Grendel as cruel and inconsiderate, therefore calling Grendel what he is acclaimed to be, evil. Although, Grendel by John Gardner gives the readers a look on the inside of his life and experiences, told from Grendel himself. There is now a new point of view on the classic epic, showcasing the personal…

Samaneh Nasizadeh Prof. Gallego Psychology 2301 6 October, 15 Finding the Accurate Method of Study In recent years, there is a critical controversy among psychology experts, whether there is a narcissism epidemic among young Americans. Some psychologists such as, “Jean Twenge and her colleagues argue that American born since the 1980s are different in being unusually self-confident, self-assertive, and self-centered”(King, 7). On the other hand, the opponents of this idea like Kali H.…

Survey shows that an immense amount of Americans believe that being unique and standing out is more valuable than fitting in. To be more precise, 83% of people surveyed believe this to be true. Personally I didn’t find these results to be that shocking because as a society we push people to be uniquely themselves so often. If you were to google the term ‘inspiring quotes’ majority of those quotes are centered around the beauty of standing out. We’ve been brainwashed to believe that standing out…

theory suggest that punishment for criminal acts should be quickly severe that convicted criminals will never repeat their acts. The main personality identified in organized crime is sociopathic personality occurs when a person is aggressive, is not deter from crime, no remorse is shown, and do not learn from past mistakes. Sociopaths have a calm personality and a high intelligence level. Psychopaths are antisocial people who always are in trouble, profiting from neither experience nor…

Our Little Prisoners Sit down. Face forward. Complete these papers. Score high on these tests. Oh, and the only break you will be getting is 22 minutes for lunch which you get after four hours of grueling busy seat work. Feel like a prisoner or like a student? Students are being required to sit through tortuous seven-hour school days while receiving only a short lunch break. According to award-winning journalist Denene Millner, "Studies suggest that as many as 40 percent of schools nationwide…

The four general principles of effective intervention that have become organizing concepts of community correction include community corrections principles of risk, criminogenic need, treatment, and fidelity. As we know, Criminal Rehabilitation is a vital component in society. Thus, if a criminal can successfully rehabilitate after committing a crime, then they have the opportunity to give back to their community and even to help deter others from following a similar path. These four methods…

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 Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) scores of 85 studies, made up of college students (all within the same age range at the time of taking the test) between 1979 and 2006, Twenge et al., (2008) found that, “ since 1982, NPI scores have increased 0.33 standard…

Why are crimes committed? Most people would say out of greed jealousy and anger. But we all get jealous greedy and angry so why don’t we all kill. The answer to that remains not in the heart, as most people to be, but in the mind. In 2006 the Bureau Justice Center did a survey and what they found shed much light on the mind (or lack thereof) a criminal. They concluded that estimated that 705,600 mentally ill adults were incarcerated in State prisons, 78,800 in Federal prisons and 479,900 in…

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” -Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs This is one of the most iconic quotes spoken by Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is a fictional character best known for his cannibalistic and psychopathic tendencies paired with his extreme charm and persuasiveness. While Lecter is the most infamous fictional psychopath, he is not the only one. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago, the psychopath, devises a plan to promote himself to general. He does this by…