PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter intro: Paparazzi, Attention Seeking, Exhibitionism
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The narcissism epidemic by jean twenge and keith campbell. It is now possible to hire fake paparazzi to follow you around snapping a photograph when you go out at night. People strive to create a "personal" brand (self-branding), packaging themselves like a product to be sold. These trends are rooted in a single underlying shift in the american psychology: the relentless rise of narcissism in our culture. Not only are there more narcissists than ever, non-narcissistic people are seduced by the increasing emphasis on material wealth, physical appearance, celebrity worship, and attention seeking. Epidemic: an affliction affecting a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population: narcissistic personality traits rose just as fast as obesity from the 1980s to present -more pronounced for women. The rise in narcissism is also accelerating, with scores rising faster in the 2000s than before: by 2006, 1/4 college students agreed with the majority of the items on a standard measure of narcissistic traits.
