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  • An older colleague of mine, Huw, often complains aboutkids these days--with their tweeting,

  • Facebook. A whole generation of self-absorbed, narcissistic people.” Narcissism is defined

  • as the obsession with your appearance, being extremely egotistical, or having an unhealthy

  • admiration of your intellect. Is the millennial generation really more narcissistic than previous

  • generations? And are sites like Facebook to blame? A study found that two thirds of college

  • students were more narcissistic than the average college student 30 years ago. To measure this,

  • researchers used the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. It measures your self love by asking

  • questions with a forced choice. For example, pick one: I want to amount to something in

  • the eyes of the world. I just want to be reasonably happy. If you picked the first option, youre

  • considered more narcissistic. This index measures how narcissistic people are, but it doesn’t

  • measure Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD, a serious mental illness that’s

  • different from just having high self esteem. People who suffer from NPD seriously think

  • they are better than other people, that other people’s emotions are a waste of time or

  • theyre aggressive when theyre rejected or insulted. NPD is a serious problem, but

  • outside of this disorder narcissism is regarded as a negative trait. This book - The Narcissism

  • Epidemic - says that narcissism is corrosive to society. TIME ran a cover story on the

  • lazy, entitled Millennial generation. And it does seem that social media is at least

  • partly to blame. It’s estimated that 30% of photos taken by Gen Y are selfies and in

  • the UK, 17 million selfies are uploaded to social media every week. So with social media

  • use on the rise, it only stands to reason that the observed rise in narcissism is related

  • to our growing ability to indulge our narcissistic traits. But is this all bad? Is it possible

  • that a rise in narcissism actually makes us better, more self aware people? You may think

  • that admiring yourself in a mirror is shallow and vain, but studies have shown seeing your

  • reflection reduces the incidence of cheating on tests. At workplaces, it’s common for

  • employees to contribute to an honesty box to pay for vital coffee supplies. In one experiment,

  • when an image of a pair of eyes was placed above the box contributions increased three-fold.

  • If we know were being watched, we become more likely to behave honestly. And narcissism

  • also correlates with traits we think of as positive. In addition to being more narcissistic,

  • college students today are also more assertive, extraverted and have more self esteem than

  • the average college students 30 years ago. Narcissism in the extreme is a problematic

  • disorder, but for most people, a slight increase in narcissism, brought on by social media,

  • may be a benefit. Being faced with ourselves makes us better people--it’s not just about

  • vanity. The ever present media, the images of ourselves on Facebook and around us are

  • allowing us to see ourselves as we never have before. If you take the opportunity to see

  • yourself as others do, rather than to present yourself as you would rather be, the reflection

  • may make you more confident, honest, and self-aware. What do you think? Let me know in the comments,

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社交媒體自戀的負面作用 (The Upside of Social Media Narcissism)

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