This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
You don't have to look far to see evidence of narcissism in our culture.
I am a God.
Hurry up.
With my damn aside, I'm an international phenomenon and my name is Miley and everyone knows that.
No, no, I know that.
Snap, girls.
The show's over.
You can all go home, pack your bags.
I have not done a selfie in this glam room.
How many selfies are you gonna do in one day?
You're like obsessed.
I need 1200.
Kanye west and Kim Kardashian are only the tip of the iceberg.
Our society is in the midst of a full blown narcissism epidemic.
It doesn't take a psychologist to see that, but we decided to talk to one anyway.
We're more focused on the self.
We're less focused on social rules.
At the extreme, that can turn into this narcissistic attention seeking of everybody.