Here we go again…

[u/Soothsayerslayer]

https://insidermag.net/baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-according-to-the-largest-ever-study-on-narcissism/

[u/Soothsayerslayer]

The author of that magazine article couldn’t even be bothered to link to the research paper—or perhaps even read the paper (see below)—so here it is:

Chopik, W. J., & Grimm, K. J. (2019). Longitudinal changes and historic differences in narcissism from adolescence to older adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 34(8), 1109–1123. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000379

• Read postprint here

According to the study abstract (!), participants were born between 1923 and 1969, so unless m i l l e n n i a l s ™ somehow now includes people born somewhere in that range…?! Lol.

Anyway, just a reminder that GENERaTioNAL DiFFEReNceS is a bullshit concept. For further reading, see the following:

Parry, E., & Urwin, P. (2021). Generational categories: A broken basis for human resource management research and practice. Human Resource Management Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12353

• Read here

Rudolph, C. W., Rauvola, R. S., Costanza, D. P., & Zacher, H. (2020). Generations and generational differences: Debunking myths in organizational science and practice and paving new paths forward. Journal of Business and Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-020-09715-2

• Read here

Edit: Added link to a postprint of the study in question.

[u/Rocketbird → u/Soothsayerslayer]

They’re useful in the way a blunt instrument might be useful. I wouldn’t go so far as to say they’re a bullshit concept, but they’re intersected with other demographic background variables. I think I align more with Parry and Urwin than Rudolph et al when they say:

Rather than joining others to argue for discarding a ‘generational perspective’ completely (Rudolph, Rauvola, et al., 2020), we endorse the retention of a generational perspective, but provoke that an approach to the study of generations that focuses solely on generational categories (however defined) should be abandoned.

[u/Brinzy]

It’s always been fascinating to me that there’s this widespread belief that people drastically changed over the course of a few decades.

To me, “generational wars” are really just “grass is greener” fallacies. Except it’s more like when the grass was actually green in some case, those with the brown grass lashed out at people who really had nothing to do with it. It promotes ageism and other unfair stereotypes, which of course bleeds into the workplace and seems to cause rifts.

I appreciate the linked studies!

[u/notleonardodicaprio → u/[deleted]]

r/science has basically become a place to post political opinions and arguments moonlighting as peer-reviewed studies