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Selfie-generation grades boosted ‘if lecturers are narcissists’. (2016)

“less narcissistic students struggled in classes with more narcissistic faculty.. However, more narcissistic students “thrived” with similarly self-obsessed instructors”.

David Matthews, Times Higher Education
5 April 2016
Image: iStock

For ordinary students, a preening, self-obsessed lecturer is bad news. But for their narcissistic, selfie-taking classmates, having a similarly self-regarding professor actually boosts grades, according to research.

This was the alarming finding of a study of about 400 business undergraduates in the US that looked at the impact of professorial narcissism on student performance.

(The research) also warned that business schools are particular hotbeds of self-obsession, where narcissists flourish in an environment where “assertiveness, talkativeness, creativity, and overt confidence are encouraged and rewarded”.

Excessively self-centered faculty even offer a “potential model for future behaviour” to similarly inclined students, the paper warns.

“.. rising levels of narcissism present significant challenges for the business community.”

Access the full article here: Selfie generation grades boosted ‘if lecturers are narcissists’

HOOTSUITE ANGLE:

“Study also warns that business schools could be producing ever more narcissistic graduates, leading to economic problems in future.”

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