Jean Twenge
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean Marie Twenge is an American psychologist researching generational differences, including work values, life goals, and speed of development. She is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, author, consultant, and public speaker. She has examined generational differences in work attitudes, life goals, developmental speed, sexual behavior, and religious commitment.
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- Social exclusion impairs self-regulation. (2005) (1251)
- Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing (2010) (1242)
- Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before (2006) (1218)
- Social exclusion decreases prosocial behavior. (2007) (1076)
- That swimsuit becomes you: sex differences in self-objectification, restrained eating, and math performance. (1998) (1067)
- If you can't join them, beat them: effects of social exclusion on aggressive behavior. (2001) (1042)
- Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: a limited-resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative. (2008) (1018)
- Egos inflating over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. (2008) (902)
- Parenthood and Marital Satisfaction: A Meta-Analytic Review. (2003) (847)
- Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time (2018) (808)
- Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought. (2002) (804)
- The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (2009) (784)
- A Review of the Empirical Evidence on Generational Differences in Work Attitudes (2010) (775)
- “Isn’t It Fun to Get the Respect That We’re Going to Deserve?” Narcissism, Social Rejection, and Aggression (2003) (720)
- The age of anxiety? Birth cohort change in anxiety and neuroticism, 1952-1993. (2000) (719)
- Generational differences in psychological traits and their impact on the workplace (2008) (695)
- Changes in masculine and feminine traits over time: A meta-analysis (1997) (691)
- Age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and birth cohort difference on the children's depression inventory: A meta-analysis. (2002) (664)
- Age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and birth cohort differences on the children's depression inventory: a meta-analysis. (2002) (655)
- Age, Period, and Cohort Trends in Mood Disorder Indicators and Suicide-Related Outcomes in a Nationally Representative Dataset, 2005–2017 (2019) (619)
- Social exclusion and the deconstructed state: time perception, meaninglessness, lethargy, lack of emotion, and self-awareness. (2003) (615)
- Interpersonal Rejection as a Determinant of Anger and Aggression (2006) (605)
- Race and self-esteem: meta-analyses comparing whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians and comment on Gray-Little and Hafdahl (2000). (2002) (566)
- Generational differences in young adults' life goals, concern for others, and civic orientation, 1966-2009. (2012) (549)
- Age and Birth Cohort Differences in Self-Esteem: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2001) (538)
- Individual differences in narcissism: Inflated self-views across the lifespan and around the world (2003) (529)
- Social exclusion causes self-defeating behavior. (2002) (486)
- Birth cohort increases in psychopathology among young Americans, 1938-2007: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the MMPI. (2010) (462)
- Self-Esteem and Socioeconomic Status: A Meta-Analytic Review (2002) (444)
- It's Beyond My Control: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Increasing Externality in Locus of Control, 1960-2002 (2004) (392)
- Generational changes and their impact in the classroom: teaching Generation Me (2009) (387)
- Changes in women's assertiveness in response to status and roles: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1931-1993. (2001) (368)
- Birth Cohort Increases in Narcissistic Personality Traits Among American College Students, 1982–2009 (2010) (346)
- Decreases in Psychological Well-Being Among American Adolescents After 2012 and Links to Screen Time During the Rise of Smartphone Technology (2018) (331)
- Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality (2002) (326)
- Associations between screen time and lower psychological well-being among children and adolescents: Evidence from a population-based study (2018) (316)
- Attitudes Toward Women, 1970–1995 (1997) (313)
- If You Can't Join Them, Beat Them: Effects of Social Exclusion on Aggressive Behavior (2001) (304)
- It's the thought that counts: The role of hostile cognition in shaping aggressive responses to social exclusion. (2009) (291)
- Gender Differences in Domain-Specific Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis (2009) (279)
- Trends in U.S. Adolescents’ media use, 1976–2016: The rise of digital media, the decline of TV, and the (near) demise of print. (2019) (277)
- Changes in American Adults’ Sexual Behavior and Attitudes, 1972–2012 (2015) (257)
- U.S. Census Bureau‐assessed prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in 2019 and during the 2020 COVID‐19 pandemic (2020) (255)
- Masculine and Feminine Traits on the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, 1993–2012: a Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2017) (244)
- The Great Recession (2014) (231)
- Thwarting the Need to Belong: Understanding the Interpersonal and Inner Effects of Social Exclusion (2007) (226)
- Trends in Mood and Anxiety Symptoms and Suicide-Related Outcomes Among U.S. Undergraduates, 2007-2018: Evidence From Two National Surveys. (2019) (224)
- The effect of social networking websites on positive self-views: An experimental investigation (2012) (208)
- Trait Self-Objectification in Women: Affective and Personality Correlates ☆ (2002) (196)
- Generational Changes in Materialism and Work Centrality, 1976-2007 (2013) (196)
- Changes in Young People's Sexual Behavior and Attitudes, 1943–1999: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2005) (187)
- Tuning in to psychological change: Linguistic markers of psychological traits and emotions over time in popular U.S. song lyrics. (2011) (187)
- The Disruptive Effect of Self-Objectification on Performance (2006) (181)
- Less in-person social interaction with peers among U.S. adolescents in the 21st century and links to loneliness (2019) (181)
- Mapping the scale of the narcissism epidemic: Increases in narcissism 2002–2007 within ethnic groups (2008) (172)
- Mental distress among U.S. adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020) (163)
- Decreases in self-reported sleep duration among U.S. adolescents 2009-2015 and association with new media screen time. (2017) (163)
- Generational Increases in Agentic Self-evaluations among American College Students, 1966–2009 (2012) (156)
- Changes in the need for social approval, 1958–2001☆ (2007) (153)
- The Evidence for Generation Me and Against Generation We (2013) (151)
- Birth cohort changes in extraversion: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1966–1993 (2001) (150)
- Declines in Trust in Others and Confidence in Institutions Among American Adults and Late Adolescents, 1972–2012 (2014) (146)
- Changes in American Adults’ Reported Same-Sex Sexual Experiences and Attitudes, 1973–2014 (2016) (142)
- Further Evidence of an Increase in Narcissism Among College Students (2008) (138)
- The Decline in Adult Activities Among U.S. Adolescents, 1976-2016. (2019) (138)
- Birth Cohort Differences in Self-Esteem, 1988–2008: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2010) (136)
- Media Use Is Linked to Lower Psychological Well-Being: Evidence from Three Datasets (2019) (135)
- Replenishing connectedness: reminders of social activity reduce aggression after social exclusion. (2007) (135)
- Fitting In or Standing Out: Trends in American Parents' Choices for Children’s Names, 1880–2007 (2010) (134)
- Automatic emotion regulation after social exclusion: tuning to positivity. (2011) (130)
- Increases in Individualistic Words and Phrases in American Books, 1960–2008 (2012) (125)
- Increases in Positive Self-Views Among High School Students (2008) (124)
- Attitudes Toward Women’s Work and Family Roles in the United States, 1976–2013 (2016) (122)
- Changes in Pronoun Use in American Books and the Rise of Individualism, 1960-2008 (2013) (116)
- Gender differences in associations between digital media use and psychological well-being: Evidence from three large datasets. (2020) (116)
- A Little Acceptance Goes a Long Way (2010) (114)
- iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us (2017) (111)
- Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences in Depressive Symptoms in the U.S., 1982–2013 (2015) (107)
- More Time on Technology, Less Happiness? Associations Between Digital-Media Use and Psychological Well-Being (2019) (102)
- Generational Differences Are Real and Useful (2015) (94)
- Birth Cohort Differences in the Monitoring the Future Dataset and Elsewhere: Further Evidence for Generation Me—Commentary on Trzesniewski & Donnellan (2010) (2010) (94)
- Generational and Time Period Differences in American Adolescents’ Religious Orientation, 1966–2014 (2015) (92)
- Declines in Sexual Frequency among American Adults, 1989–2014 (2017) (87)
- What is a Feminist? (1999) (84)
- Placing Job Characteristics in Context: Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Changes in Job Characteristics Since 1975 (2018) (81)
- Associations between screen time and sleep duration are primarily driven by portable electronic devices: evidence from a population-based study of U.S. children ages 0-17. (2019) (78)
- Male and Female Pronoun Use in U.S. Books Reflects Women’s Status, 1900–2008 (2012) (77)
- Social Exclusion Increases Aggression and Self-Defeating Behavior while Reducing Intelligent Thought and Prosocial Behavior. (2005) (74)
- Who are the Millennials? Empirical evidence for generational differences in work values, attitudes and personality (2012) (70)
- Does Online Social Media Lead to Social Connection or Social Disconnection? (2013) (70)
- “Mrs. His Name”: Women's Preferences For Married Names (1997) (64)
- Why increases in adolescent depression may be linked to the technological environment. (2020) (63)
- Generational differences in mental health: are children and adolescents suffering more, or less? (2011) (62)
- Not all screen time is created equal: associations with mental health vary by activity and gender (2020) (59)
- Time Period, Generational, and Age Differences in Tolerance for Controversial Beliefs and Lifestyles in the United States, 1972–2012 (2015) (59)
- Associations between screen time and short sleep duration among adolescents varies by media type: evidence from a cohort study. (2019) (57)
- Mapping Gender (1999) (57)
- A magnetoencephalography investigation of neural correlates for social exclusion and self-control (2006) (56)
- Underestimating digital media harm (2020) (56)
- Changes in American Adults’ Sexual Behavior and Attitudes, 1972–2012 (2015) (54)
- More Polarized but More Independent (2016) (52)
- Fuzzy But Useful Constructs: Making Sense of the Differences Between Generations (2017) (51)
- Mental distress among U.S. adults during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (49)
- Teaching Generation Me (2013) (49)
- Experimental Evidence That Low Social Status Is Most Toxic to Well-Being When Internalized (2015) (48)
- A good life is a personal life: Relationship fulfillment and work fulfillment in judgments of life quality☆ (2005) (46)
- Declines in American Adults’ Religious Participation and Beliefs, 1972-2014 (2016) (44)
- 'It's all about me'. (2007) (43)
- More Happiness for Young People and Less for Mature Adults (2016) (42)
- Rejection's impact on self-defeating, prosocial, antisocial, and self-regulatory behaviors (2006) (42)
- Age, Time Period, and Birth Cohort Differences in Self-Esteem: Reexamining a Cohort-Sequential Longitudinal Study (2017) (42)
- Worldwide increases in adolescent loneliness. (2021) (42)
- Increases in Depression, Self‐Harm, and Suicide Among U.S. Adolescents After 2012 and Links to Technology Use: Possible Mechanisms (2020) (40)
- Birth cohort, social change, and personality: The interplay of dysphoria and individualism in the 20th century. (2002) (39)
- The Social Self (2003) (38)
- Change over time in obedience: The jury's still out, but it might be decreasing. (2009) (38)
- Status and Gender: The Paradox of Progress in an Age of Narcissism (2009) (36)
- When Does Social Rejection Lead to Aggression? The Influences of Situations, Narcissism, Emotion, and Replenishing Connections. (2005) (35)
- Generation Me, the Origins of Birth Cohort Differences in Personality Traits, and Cross‐temporal Meta‐analysis (2008) (33)
- Sleep characteristics of U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) (33)
- Generational differences in American students’ reasons for going to college, 1971–2014: The rise of extrinsic motives (2016) (33)
- The Duality of Individualism: Attitudes Toward Women, Generation Me, and the Method of Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2011) (33)
- The narcissism epidemic: commentary on modernity and narcissistic personality disorder. (2014) (32)
- Psychological Entitlement and Ambivalent Sexism: Understanding the Role of Entitlement in Predicting Two Forms of Sexism (2014) (28)
- Still standing out: children's names in the United States during the Great Recession and correlations with economic indicators (2016) (26)
- "That swimsuit becomes you: Sex differences in self-objectification, restrained eating, and math performance": Correction to Fredrickson et al. (1998). (1998) (25)
- Overwhelming Evidence for Generation Me (2013) (19)
- Self-Control: A Limited Yet Renewable Resource (2002) (19)
- Declines in non‐digital social interaction among Americans, 2003–2017 (2020) (19)
- Generation Me and the Changing World of Work (2009) (19)
- The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television: Increases in the Use of Swear Words in American Books, 1950-2008 (2017) (19)
- First‐Name Desirability and Adjustment: Self‐Satisfaction, Others' Ratings, and Family Background (1998) (17)
- American undergraduate students' value development during the Great Recession (2017) (17)
- Dynamics of Sex-Role Stereotypes (2007) (16)
- Entering adulthood in a recession tempers later narcissism – But only in men (2016) (15)
- Anxiety and depressive symptoms in U.S. Census Bureau assessments of adults: Trends from 2019 to fall 2020 across demographic groups. (2021) (14)
- Narcissism and Culture (2012) (14)
- God Owes Me: The Role of Divine Entitlement in Predicting Struggles With a Deity (2017) (13)
- Increased Support for Same-sex Marriage in the US: Disentangling Age, Period, and Cohort Effects (2020) (13)
- Cultural Individualism Is Linked to Later Onset of Adult-Role Responsibilities Across Time and Regions (2018) (13)
- The Age in Which We Live and Its Impact on the Person (2014) (13)
- Support for Marijuana (Cannabis) Legalization: Untangling Age, Period, and Cohort Effects (2017) (13)
- Screen media use and sleep disturbance symptom severity in children. (2020) (12)
- Low Subjective Social Status Promotes Ruminative Coping1 (2011) (12)
- Narcissism and Relationships: From Light to Dark (2010) (11)
- Emerging adult reactions to labeling regarding age-group differences in narcissism and entitlement (2019) (10)
- Managing the New Workforce: International Perspectives on the Millennial Generation (2013) (10)
- Gender Differences in Domain-Specific Self-Esteem: (2009) (10)
- Commentary: Screens, Teens, and Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From Three Time-Use-Diary Studies (2020) (10)
- Declines in vocabulary among American adults within levels of educational attainment, 1974–2016 (2019) (10)
- Digital Media May Explain a Substantial Portion of the Rise in Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls: Response to Daly (2018) (9)
- Masculine and Feminine Traits on the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, 1993–2012: a Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2016) (9)
- Narcissism, Emerging Media, and Society (2015) (9)
- Psychology of Aesthetics , Creativity , and the Arts Tuning in to Psychological Change : Linguistic Markers of Psychological Traits and Emotions Over Time in Popular (2011) (8)
- Amount of Time Online Is Problematic if It Displaces Face-to-Face Social Interaction and Sleep (2018) (8)
- Race and self-esteem revisited: Reply to Hafdahl and Gray-Little (2002). (2002) (8)
- The inner world of rejection: effects of social exclusion on emotion, cognition, and self-regulation (2014) (7)
- The expanding class divide in happiness in the United States, 1972-2016. (2020) (7)
- Specification curve analysis shows that social media use is linked to poor mental health, especially among girls. (2022) (6)
- Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences in Depressive Symptoms in the U.S., 1982–2013 (2014) (6)
- Storm and Stress Redux (2008) (6)
- Birth Cohort DifferenCes in Personality (2015) (6)
- Divergent decennial trends in mental health according to age reveal poorer mental health for young people: repeated cross-sectional population-based surveys from the HUNT Study, Norway (2022) (6)
- Excellent and Accessible View of Emerging Adulthood (2008) (5)
- Associations Between Adolescent Depression and Self-Harm Behaviors and Screen Media Use in a Nationally Representative Time-Diary Study (2021) (5)
- Considering All of the Data on Digital-Media Use and Depressive Symptoms: Response to Ophir, Lipshits-Braziler, and Rosenberg (2020) (2020) (4)
- Correction: Generational and Time Period Differences in American Adolescents' Religious Orientation, 1966-2014 (2019) (4)
- What is the Optimal Way to Give Thanks? Comparing the Effects of Gratitude Expressed Privately, One-to-One via Text, or Publicly on Social Media (2022) (4)
- Changes in sexual behavior and attitudes, 1943-1999: A cross-temporal meta-analysis: (633942013-846) (2005) (4)
- Rejection and Aggression: Explaining the Paradox (2013) (3)
- Egos deflating with the Great Recession: A cross-temporal meta-analysis and within-campus analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, 1982–2016 (2021) (3)
- Performance, Self-Satisfaction, Self-Liking, and Self-Competence Increases in Positive Self-Views Among High School Students: Birth-Cohort Changes in Anticipated (2013) (2)
- Teens Today Spend More Time on Digital Media, Less Time Reading: (514492018-001) (2018) (2)
- Future Well-Being Among U.S. Youth Who Attempted Suicide and Survived. (2021) (2)
- Personality and Social Behavior (2001) (2)
- Possible Reasons US Adults Are Not Having Sex as Much as They Used To. (2020) (2)
- Declines in Sexual Frequency among American Adults, 1989–2014 (2017) (1)
- The changing nature of jobs: A meta-analytic investigation (2016) (1)
- Linear correlation is insufficient as the sole measure of associations: The case of technology use and mental health. (2022) (1)
- Associations between screen time and internalizing disorder diagnoses among 9- to 10-year-olds. (2022) (1)
- Teens, screens and quarantine; the relationship between adolescent media use and mental health prior to and during COVID-19 (2022) (1)
- PSY 610 Advanced Research Methods in Psychology (2014) (0)
- Ego Depletion in Color Priming Research View project (2006) (0)
- Sleep health in U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (0)
- Subjective social status: Psychological consequences in a laboratory setting: (514412014-430) (2007) (0)
- Religion and Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis (2004) (0)
- Your Generation and Your Personality: The Truth Behind Generation Me (2008) (0)
- Underestimating digital media harm (2020) (0)
- PSY 351 Psychology of Personality (2015) (0)
- The Association Between Well-Being and Objectively Measured Versus Self-Reported Smartphone Time (2021) (0)
- Lock Screens: Social media is the worst (2023) (0)
- The Nationwide Economic Downturn and Adolescents ’ Values and Behaviors : Questions , Theory , and Predictions (2013) (0)
- Why Today’s Teens Aren’t in Any Hurry to Grow Up (2020) (0)
- Generation Me and the Changing Nature of Work (2009) (0)
- 12 The Social Self (2012) (0)
- Psychological Entitlement and Ambivalent Sexism: Understanding the Role of Entitlement in Predicting Two Forms of Sexism (2014) (0)
- Is it Kids Today or Just that their kids (2014) (0)
- 30.3 DIGITAL MEDIA USE AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG ADOLESCENTS: EVIDENCE FROM FOUR LARGE DATA SETS (2019) (0)
- A Theoretical and Thought-Provoking Review of Personality Psychology. (2003) (0)
- PSY 340 Social Psychology (2013) (0)
- Subjective Social Status Scale--Modified (2015) (0)
- Changes in American Adults’ Reported Same-Sex Sexual Experiences and Attitudes, 1973–2014 (2016) (0)
- Assertiveness, sociability, and anxiety: A cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1928-1993. (1998) (0)
- Sexual Inactivity During Young Adulthood Is More Common Among U.S. Millennials and iGen: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Having No Sexual Partners After Age 18 (2016) (0)
- Male and Female Pronoun Use in U.S. Books Reflects Women’s Status, 1900–2008 (2012) (0)
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