| Edition |
First Free Press hardcover edition. |
| Description |
viii, 339 pages : charts ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index. |
| Contents |
The growing narcissism in American culture -- The many wonders of admiring yourself -- The disease of excessive self-admiration and the top five myths about narcissism -- Isn't narcissism beneficial, especially in a competitive world? -- How did we get here? -- Parenting -- Superspreaders! -- Look at me on Myspace -- I deserve the best at 18% APR -- Hell yeah, I'm hot! -- The spending explosion and the impact on the environment -- Seven billion kinds of special -- The quest for infamy and the rise of incivility -- The chocolate cake trap -- All play and no work -- God didn't create you to be average -- The prognosis -- Treating the epidemic of narcissism. |
| Summary |
Citing a rise in such factors as cosmetic surgery, status-related debt, and misrepresented Facebook profiles, a cautionary report on the increase of unhealthy ego-related behaviors examines its actual cost to families, organizations, and societies. |
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From the Publisher: Narcissism-a very positive and inflated view of the self-is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife, and it's why five times as many Americans undergo plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures today than did just ten years ago. It's the value that parents teach their children with song lyrics like "I am special. Look at me," the skill teenagers and young adults obsessively hone on Facebook and MySpace, and the reason high school students physically beat classmates and then broadcast their violence on YouTube for all to see. It's the message preached by prosperity gospel and the vacuous ethos spread by celebrity newsmakers. And it's what's making people depressed, lonely, and buried under piles of debt. Jean M. Twenge's influential and controversial first book, Generation Me, generated a national debate with its trenchant depiction of the challenges twenty-and thirtysomethings face emotionally and professionally in today's world-and the fallout these issues create for older generations as well as employers. Now, Dr. Twenge is on to a new incendiary topic that has repercussions for every age-group and class: the pernicious spread of narcissism in today's culture and its catastrophic effects. Dr. Twenge joins forces with W. Keith Campbell, Ph. D., a nationally recognized expert on narcissism, for The Narcissism Epidemic, their eye-opening exposition of the alarming rise of narcissism-and they show how to stop it. Every day, you encounter the real costs of narcissism: in your relationships and family, in the workplace and the economy at large, in schools that fail to teach necessary skills, in culture, and in politics. Even the world economy has been damaged by risky, unrealistic overconfidence. Filled with arresting anecdotes that illustrate the hold narcissism has on us today-from people hiring fake paparazzi in order to experience feeling famous to college students who won't leave a professor's office until their B+ becomes an A. The Narcissism Epidemic is at once a riveting window into the consequences of narcissism, a probing analysis of the culture at large, and a prescription to combat the widespread problems caused by narcissism. As a society, we have a chance to slow the epidemic of narcissism once we learn to identify it, minimize the forces that sustain and transmit it, and treat it where we find it. Drawing on their own extensive research as well as decades of other experts' studies, Drs. Twenge and Campbell show us how. |
| Subject |
Narcissism -- United States.
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Entitlement attitudes -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Campbell, W. Keith.
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| ISBN |
9781416575986 |
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1416575987 |
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