On Narcissism

form of narcissism? Editors Edwin E. Gantt and Brent Slife of Brigham Young University present two opposing opinions to explore this topic in their presentation, “Is Excessive Use of Social Media a Form of Narcissism?”. Could the oversharing, “duck face”, and look at me virtual world be a way to reach out to each other or just a shallow attempt at self-validation? Each article expresses the author’s views, and research on the subject. Soraya Mehdizadeh’s work, “Self-Presentation 2.0: Narcissism and

“sub par” to them. In an article published by Russ and other researchers, they look at narcissism through a new lense. They attempt to find the most characteristic and distinctive features of NPD; furthermore they attempt to identify various subtypes of NPD. They proposed three main subtypes of NPD, grandiose/malignant, high-functioning/exhibitionistic, and fragile. Grandiose/Malignant Grandiose narcissism is characterized by seething anger, a lack of remorse, exaggerated self-importance, feelings

Professional Narcissism – Virtue of Flaw? Narcissism is known to be the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes. Psychologically, it is defined as extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for all or any type of admiration, as characterising a personality type. Recently I got to thinking about Professional Narcissism. I started to ponder why Professional Narcissism is so much frowned upon and whether the

Brewer, Danielle Hunt, Gail James, and Loren Abell, psychology professors from an elite institution, conducted a study on narcissistic traits and its’ influence on infidelity levels in relationships. The study found that women with higher levels of narcissism, not only display greater levels of infidelity themselves, but believe that they are more vulnerable to a partner’s infidelity than women with low

Backwards Narcissism The excerpt from the novel, Generation Me by Jean Twenge is a very opinionated piece about my generation, The Millennials, and those chronologically after us. Twenge clearly does not like my generation and the way we live our lives. I am not saying I completely disagree with many of her claims, such as my generation is narcissistic and undeserving; however, I believe her statements are very one-sided, narrow-minded, and uninformed. Jean Twenge begins the chapter explaining how

lost touch with the outside world around him, neglecting his own needs, he died admiring himself. What happened to this man, is a personality disorder known as narcissism. The term narcissism seems to be one of the buzz-words of this generation and is thrown around without much thought or consideration of what it actually means. Narcissism is commonly confused for inflated self-esteem and grandiosity when it is actually a self-esteem disorder. Typically, a narcissist will portray themselves as incredibly

trying to go with the trend and gain self confidence in finding yourself when you post it. I believe that some selfies aren’t a narcissistic thing, but a popular trend about teen expression. There are many reasons that selfies aren’t a form of teen narcissism. Mainly because they are a trend. Selfies aren’t just used to show off the beauty of people’s faces, but to be apart of the trend. A majority

Whether or not the writer of the movie has embellished things the utterance of the words by an adopted child are heartbreaking. No child should ever endure any form of abuse. In the film Joan demonstrates what Benokraitis (2015:162) explains is narcissism; playing with love. Benokraitis (2015:162) also expresses that “Narcissists believe that they are unique, smarter, and more attractive than others, and they constantly seek attention”. Linda Martinez-Lewi, Ph.D. Narcissistic Personality Clinical

After watching the podcast that featured a discussion with Jean Twenge, a researcher and author, I learned that our society is in the midst of a full-blown narcissism epidemic. Twenge mentions that famous individuals (Donald Trump, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian) represent narcissism and she found that when looking at baby boomers in the 60’s in comparison to millennials, millennials are more likely to say that they think they are above average. Twenge states that the feature that the discussion always

social media are among the plausible factors that promotes it (Quenqua, 2013). However, how true can this statement be? Many researches have proven that social media is not the main cause of narcissism. It has been demonstrated via the real role of social media, the co-relation between social pressure and narcissism, the failure to conclude acceptance of