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	The Last Psychiatrist

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11-28-2008 2:02 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/57f5293b-44f9-49ff-952e-72067d4ab9b0/37D02A86-FB8B-41E3-AC94-8E96014578B2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html" href="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">thelastpsychiatrist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html"><DIV>Meta-analysis of studies in which college kids over the decades were given the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, it found that narcissism is on the rise.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html"><DIV>The authors offer a helpful analogy: if the average student in the 1980s scored in the 50th percentile for narcissism, then the average 2006 college student scored in the 65th percentile-- 2/3 of 2006 college kids are above the 1980 mean for narcissism.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html"><DIV>Some interesting findings:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html"><DIV>the college students scored the same level of narcissism as a study of 200 celebrities.  (more on that later.)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html"><DIV>Women's scores rose more rapidly than men's.  In 1992 the SD between men and women was 0.45 (men higher); in 2006 it was 0.15. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html"><DIV>
But not everyone agrees.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/narcissism_up_in_college_stude_1.html"><DIV>
From the <I>Journal of Personality</I>, <A href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120120841/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0">Egos Inflating Over Time: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory</A>-- which the blogger from <A href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/">fashion-incubator</A> sent to me a year ago, before it was even published:</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/37D02A86-FB8B-41E3-AC94-8E96014578B2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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