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Narcissism

The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.

Design For the Real World: Mirror

Arts, Culture & Media

From Versailles to selfies: how the mirror created our culture of narcissism.

Shoppers wait in long lines in front of a storefront window that reads "Black Friday" in black and white letters.

Why do Black Friday shoppers throw punches over bargains? A marketing expert explains ‘psychological ownership’

Lifestyle & Belief

Re-upholstering Sigmund Freud’s Couch and Remembering One Poet Who Made a Dent in it

Arts, Culture & Media

Is Technology Making Our Children Narcissists?

New Study: Narcissistic Culture Leads to Narcissistic Lyrics

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Musical Narcissism: On The Rise?

[waitingforcorrection: GUID not valid, no audio attached] Pop music’s lyrics seem to have taken a turn towards the “me” and “I” variety, according to a new study. Nathan DeWall, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky, studied three decades of songs, and concluded that music has become more narcissistic in recent years, reflecting […]

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New study on dog behavior

Environment

New research suggests that dogs may exhibit behaviors that look like envy. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Dr. Friederike Range who headed the study at the University of Vienna.

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Israelis fed up with scandals

Global Politics

Political scandals are nothing new in Israel, but now that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is under fire in the latest such scandal, many Israelis are fed up, as Matt Gutman reports from Jerusalem.

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Jean Twenge

Arts, Culture & Media

San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge talks about her forthcoming study in the Journal of Personality that suggests rates of narcissism in the U.S. have been on the rise since the 1970s.

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