“Today’s youth seem to be no more narcissistic and self-aggrandizing than previous generations,” write the authors. “We were unable to find evidence that either narcissism or the closely related construct of self-enhancement has increased over the past three decades.”

Good to hear Carter say this. You hear the occasional old geezer sayin' What's gotten in to those kids these days,' but the narcissism and self-aggrandizing seems ageless to me, and not specific to any one age group. I wonder how us as adults would score in similar research as a comparison to prior generations?

We may not want to find out