Baby boomers more sensitive than millennials - study on narc

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. . . Anyway, you seem offended by the study. . .

Lol, I'm not moderating right now, merely discussing.  You don't have scientific discoveries in psychology because psychology is not a science.  Some branches just use some tools common with science.  Is it invalid because of it?  I wouldn't say so.  Philosophy is not a science. Art is not a science. Living one's life is not a science.  But it's interesting.

I won't agree with the article, but people who use snowflake as an insult are some of the touchiest I've ever met.

My view is that the results of social science studies, within WrongPlanet, are frequently overly relied upon as a sort of "guide to life," and a guide to how much potential a person has because one, say, has an Autism Spectrum Disorder.

When social science studies are used to catalogue a "trend," then I find them more acceptable.

But as a basis for judging individual persons and their overall "fate," I find social science studies to be quite wanting.

But as a basis for judging individual persons and their overall "fate," I find social science studies to be quite wanting.

However, overall older generations found to be more sensitive than their younger counterparts.

The study's co-author William Chopik, associate professor at Michigan State University, said: "There's a narrative in our culture that generations are getting more and more narcissistic, but no one has ever looked at it throughout generations or how it varies with age at the same time."

Chopik said baby boomers, or 'individuals who were born earlier in the century', started off with 'higher levels of hypersensitivity, or the type of narcissism where people are full of themselves, as well as willfulness, which is the tendency to impose opinions on others."

He said: "There isn't much data on older generations, but now that baby boomers are ageing into that phase of life, it's a huge part of the population that we need to be looking at."

Chopik also hypothetisised that baby boomers may be more narcissistic than other generations because they 'grew up in a time when the government provided privileges like social security'.

Researchers found that behaviour tends to decline as we move through life, and as we come across certain milestones.

Chopik continued: "There are things that happen in life that can shake people a little bit and force them to adapt their narcissistic qualities.

"As you age, you form new relationships, have new experiences, start a family and so on. All of these factors make someone realise that it's not 'all about them.'

"And, the older you get, the more you think about the world that you may leave behind.

"There's a sense in which narcissists start to realise that being the way they are isn't smart if they want to have friends or meaningful relationships."