The Narcissism Epidemic Is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic

Mapping the scale of the narcissism epidemic: Increases in narcissism 2002–2007 within ethnic groups

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.06.014 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.M. Tw [Twenge, J. M., Konrath, S., Foster, J. D., Campbell, W. K., & Bushman, B. J. (2008a). Egos inflating over time: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Journal of Personality, 76, 875–901.] found that Narcissistic ...

The TPP Is Dead, Long Live the TPP? A Response to Recent Commentaries

Does a narcissism epidemic exist in modern western societies? Comparing narcissism and self-esteem in East and West Germany

Narcissism scores are higher in individualistic cultures compared with more collectivistic cultures. However, the impact of sociocultural factors on narcissism and self-esteem has not been well described. Germany was formerly divided into two different social systems, each with distinct economic, political and national cultures, and was reunified in 1989/90. Between 1949 and 1989/90, West Germa...

The Past Is Never Dead—Measles Epidemic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1713

he recent measles epidemic in the United States has aroused public disbelief that a disease well-controlled for decades is reemerging to threaten children in the United States. Controversy surrounds measles vaccination in the United States; some parents have even avoided vaccinating their healthy children by exposing them to measles-infected children. However, measles has repeatedly reemerged i...

Communal narcissism.

An agency-communion model of narcissism distinguishes between agentic narcissists (individuals satisfying self-motives of grandiosity, esteem, entitlement, and power in agentic domains) and communal narcissists (individuals satisfying the same self-motives in communal domains). Five studies supported the model. In Study 1, participants listed their grandiose self-thoughts. Two distinct types em...