SIO302: Are Boomers Narcissistic? Are Millennials Entitled? What a Large Narcissism Study Does and Doesn't Tell Us
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This episode was inspired by this Insider article, Baby Boomers Are More Sensitive Than Millennials. Science is often butchered by the media, so I sent it along to our own Dr. Lindsey Osterman to see if the study backs up the article. As it turns out... not really. But it does say some interesting things. Listen in and find out!
Wetzel and colleagues (2017), The Narcissism Epidemic is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sui Sinkwery's only episode 302, I'm Thomas and that is Dr. Lindsay |
| 0:17.0 | Osterman. |
| 0:18.0 | How are you doing Lindsay? |
| 0:19.0 | Fantastic. |
| 0:20.0 | How are you? |
| 0:21.0 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:22.0 | Co-host Lindsay. |
| 0:23.0 | We're going to talk about whether or not baby boomers are more narcissistic than any other |
| 0:27.6 | generation. |
| 0:28.7 | And so this was something that I came across that I sent to you and it's cool because |
| 0:34.3 | when you have a co-host like Lindsay, who is, you know, scientifically literate, it's |
| 0:39.1 | always like, oh, I see this, you know, popular coverage of a thing and clearly there's a study |
| 0:44.7 | behind it. |
| 0:45.7 | Like it's pretty obvious. |
| 0:46.7 | Just looking at the headline like, oh, there's going to be a study and will science |
| 0:50.4 | co-host person Lindsay say this is like, okay, they blew it or will she say like, yeah, |
| 0:55.7 | great study. |
| 0:56.7 | Cool story. |
| 0:57.7 | Like this will be interesting. |
| 0:59.0 | And so that's kind of what this is because this made the rounds. |
| 1:01.5 | It turns out there's a little older than I thought, but I think it made one of those things |
| 1:04.4 | where, you know, things pop up again and go a little viral even when they're older. |
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