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Why you're wrong about narcissism
📄 Full research article: www.keca.co.uk/articles/the-admiration-trap
Is narcissism rising? New data suggests the opposite is true.
After examining over a thousand studies spanning four decades, the results show that narcissism scores have actually declined. This breakdown explains why younger generations appear more narcissistic and how personality traits shift as we age.
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You've heard that narcissism is rising. Actually, it's not. Research has pooled more than 1,000 studies covering more than 500,000 people from 1982 to 2023. Scores went down in nearly every analysis they ran. Young people score higher than older people in every decade because the trait declines with age.
That's an age effect wearing a generation's clothes. And nearly everybody who repeats the claim has read it the wrong way around.