219. How Do You Identify a Narcissist?

What’s the difference between narcissism and high self-esteem? Does social media fuel arrogance or self-consciousness? And do people get less toxic with age?

SOURCES:Brené Brown • , research professor at the University of Houston and visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin. Jonathan Haidt • , professor of social psychology at the New York University Stern School of Business. Michael Lewis • , author. Cooper McAllister • , senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. Jean Twenge • , professor of psychology at San Diego State University.

RESOURCES: • "‘ Narcissistic Abuse’ Has Gone Mainstream. But What Is It? • " Abby Ellin ( The Washington Post, • 2024). • " Development of Narcissism Across the Life Span: A Meta-Analytic Review of Longitudinal Studies • ," by Ulrich Orth, Samantha Krauss, and Mitja D. Back ( Psychological Bulletin, • 2024). The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, • by Jonathan Haidt (2024). • " America Is Obsessed With Narcissists. Is Trump to Blame? • " by Charles Trepany ( USA Today, • 2024). • " Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn • ," by Joshua D. Miller, Mitja D. Back, Donald R. Lynam, and Aidan G. C. Wright ( Current Directions in Psychological Science, • 2021). • " Egos Deflating With the Great Recession: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis and Within-Campus Analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, 1982–2016 • ," by Jean M. Twenge, Sara H. Konrath, Cooper McAllister, et al. ( Personality and Individual Differences, • 2021). • " Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Diagnostic and Clinical Challenges • ," by Eve Caligor, Kenneth N. Levy, and Frank E. Yeomans ( American Journal of Psychiatry, • 2015). Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before, • by Jean Twenge (2006). Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal: The Roman Legend's Life, Times, and Legacy, • by Michael J. Hillyard (2001).

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