Egos inflating over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.

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Narcissism and Empathy in Young Offenders and Non–Offenders (2014, background): “The link between trait narcissism and criminal behaviour is concerning, given evidence for increasing narcissism levels (Cai et al., 2012; Twenge et al., 2008).”
A Sociocultural Approach to Narcissism: The Case of Modern China (2012, background): “In response to a call for data from other cultures (Twenge et al., 2008a), we conducted the first large-scale examination of self-views, as depicted in narcissism, in relation to various societal changes taking place in a traditionally collectivistic culture—namely, China.”
An Expanded Self is a More Capable Self: The Association between Self-concept Size and Self-efficacy (2013, background): “There is evidence that younger generations are more narcissistic than older generations (Twenge, Konrath, Foster, Campbell, & Bushman, 2008 ), which likely results in greater self-efficacy beliefs.”
Student Entitlement: Issues and Strategies for Confronting Entitlement in the Classroom and Beyond (2009, background): “In subsequent empirical work, Twenge and colleagues (Twenge et al. 2008) found that today’s college students have significantly higher levels of narcissism than those of the late 1970s (by a factor of .3).”