A study posits that people who watch reality TV are more likely to be narcissistic. But the authors may contain gotten that result just by using university studentsDo you watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians because you’re a narcissist,or are you a narcissist because you watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians? A recent study related to narcissism and reality television, published in Psychology of Popular Media Culture, and attempts to answer this. Researchers asked 565 undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university to fill out a survey approximately their television viewing habits. Then the students took the Narcissistic Personality stock,a notoriously problematic 40-question test designed to degree “normal” or subclinical narcissism in the general population (in other words, not Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and which can’t be diagnosed by this creaky old psychology version of a BuzzFeed quiz).
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Source: theguardian.com