csberry | (no subject)

Read an interesting article about a study on celebrity and narcissism in the L.A. Times:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/cl-et-narcissism12sep12,0,1797463.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews

What snagged my attention most was actually at the end of the article:

But Campbell thinks the study sheds light on what his recent (as yet unpublished) research has demonstrated — U.S. college students are becoming more narcissistic. Partly, he attributes this to the rampant narcissism seen on reality TV.

"By definition, it's supposed to be reality, and you have a sample of people who are more self-absorbed, more entitled, more vain than the normal population, that is going to pull the population in the direction of narcissism. If the self-absorption you see on 'Laguna Beach' or 'The Real World' is viewed as normal, the culture will be pushed in that direction. Our levels of self-esteem and narcissism are already pretty high. I don't know if we need more of it."