Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?
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Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 2, 202644 min

The internet tells us that narcissists are everywhere — and that the problem is only getting worse. It’s like narcissism is oozing out of our celebrities, politicians, partners, parents, maybe even ourselves?? So today, we’re taking a long look in the mirror to find out: are we all a bunch of narcissists? And what should we do if we think someone in our life is a narcissist? We find out by talking to a real narcissist, Lee Hammock of the social media platform “The Self Aware Narcissist” as well as psychologists Prof. W. Keith Campbell, Prof. Kali Trzesniewski, and Dr. Cr...

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Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus. I know that last week I said we were taking a quick break to work on some new episodes. That is true. We are.

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We are working on new episodes. Thank you so much for all of your suggestions as well. To Julia, who wants an episode on hippos and wrote to us saying, quote, the world is heavy and so are hippos.

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