Jean M. Twenge
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Jean M. Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 90 scientific publications and the books "The Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant," "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement" (co-authored with W. Keith Campbell), and "Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before." She holds a BA and MA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband and children.

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'The Empathic Civilization": Narcissism Or Empathy? The Me Generation Or The We Generation?

Posted February 10, 2010 | 07:30:11 (EST)

Not that long ago, the goal of raising children was to socialize them -- to replace the natural narcissism of children with restraint and consideration for others. These days, we instead build further narcissism, an inflated sense of self characterized by overconfidence, entitlement, unbridled competitiveness, and lack of empathy.

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