1. Are celebrities bad for you

Part 2

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That leaves 2% of young people with a ‘borderline-pathological’ interest. They might say, for example, they would spend several thousand pounds on a paper plate the celebrity had used, or that they would do something illegal if the celebrity asked them to. These people are in most danger of being seriously disturbed.

What about the celebrities themselves? A study in the USA tried to measure narcissism or extreme self-centredness, when feelings of worthlessness and invisibility are compensated for by turning into the opposite: excessive showing off. Researchers looked at 200 celebrities, 200 young adults with Masters in Business Administration (a group known for being narcissistic) and a nationally representative sample using the same questionnaire. As was expected, the celebrities were significantly more narcissistic than the MBAs and both groups were a lot more narcissistic than the general population.

 

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學習資源 ：

No.	Learning Resources	Link
1.	Cambridge Dictionary	https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
2.	String Net	http://nav.stringnet.org/
3.	Longman English Dictionary Online	https://www.ldoceonline.com/
4.	Wiktionary	https://www.wiktionary.org/
5.	Collins Dictionary	https://www.collinsdictionary.com/