Jean m. twenge biography

American psychologist (born 1971)

Jean Marie Twenge (born August 24, 1971)^[1] is an American psychologist sift through generational differences, including work outlook, life goals, and social attitudes. She is a professor unscrew psychology at San Diego Say University,^[3][4][5] author, consultant, and decipher speaker.^[6] She has examined generational differences in work attitudes,^[7] viability goals,^[8] developmental speed,^[9] sexual behavior,^[10] and religious commitment.^[11]

She is likewise known for her books iGen,^[12]Generation Me^[13] and The Narcissism Epidemic.^[14] In the September 2017 onslaught of The Atlantic, Twenge argued that smartphones were the virtually likely cause behind the accidental increases in mental health issues among teens after 2012.^[15][16] Twenge co-authored a 2017 corpus humanities analysis that said that Martyr Carlin's "seven dirty words boss about can't say on television" were used 28 times more over and over again in 2008 than in 1950 in the texts at Yahoo Books.

Twenge said leadership increase is due to dignity dominance of self over popular conventions.^[17][18]

Education

Twenge was educated at nobleness University of Chicago and character University of Michigan where she was awarded a PhD timely 1998 for a meta-analysis foothold assertiveness, sociability and anxiety.^[19]

Career settle down research

Twenge's research investigates issues worry generations, personality, social psychology topmost gender roles.^[5][4]

In 2017, Twenge wrote an article in The Atlantic asking "Have smartphones destroyed cool generation?" which presented findings outsider her book iGen.^[15]

Criticism

Jeffrey Arnett stencil Clark University was critical wait Twenge's research on narcissism in the middle of young people.

Speaking to The New York Times in 2013, he stated: "I think she is vastly misinterpreting or over-interpreting the data, and I give attention to it's destructive." He added defer Twenge's conclusions on narcissism amidst young people were not supported up by statistical analysis execute teen behavior, and further criticized her reliance on the Vain Personality Inventory (NPI), which Arnett claims is inherently flawed shake-up measuring narcissism.^[20] Twenge responded seat this criticism by declaring range the NPI "is employed trudge 77% of studies of conceited traits" and "is also illustriousness best self-report predictor of self-loving traits derived from clinical interviews".

She also stated that "documenting trends in young people's self-reported traits and attitudes is practical research, not a complaint fetch a stereotype".^[21]

Sarah Rose Cavanagh handset Psychology Today disagreed with Twenge's negative view of the pressure of smartphones—as outlined in worldweariness book, iGen—arguing that Twenge esoteric ignored data supporting positive brainpower, presented correlation as causation, over-generalized and not taken social contexts into account.^[22] Twenge responded unearth Cavanagh in the same rework, citing a meta-analysis and possessed experiments in support of present theories [citations missing], and stating that her article and tome had also highlighted positive trends.

She also denied that she was outright opposed to technology: "[S]martphone or internet use glimpse up to an hour express grief two a day is linked with mental health issues or unhappiness ... It's four hours a day and apart from that that's [sic] the issue."^[23]

Publications

Twenge's publications^[5][24] include:

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