Baby Boomers More Sensitive Than Millennials, According to Study

[The Rebel Poet]

A new study suggests that, contrary to popular belief, millennials aren't more sensitive than the baby boomer generation. In fact, it's the other way around.
The study including nearly 750 people, published December 10 in the journal Psychology and Aging, is the largest study of narcissism to date. In it, researchers examined six previously collected data sets so researchers could better understand how narcissistic traits vary among generations, and how levels of narcissism change as people age.
Previous studies have only examined generational or individual trends in narcissistic behaviors, but not both at the same time like this new study.
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The researchers used "hypersensitivity" to determine a person's level of defensiveness, which William Chopik, a social-personality psychologist at Michigan State and a co-author of the study, said they defined as being unreceptive to others' feedback and lashing out at any criticism toward one's self.

They found that younger generations are less hypersensitive than older generations.

https://www.insider.com/baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-large-study-finds-2019-12

I'm shocked, shocked!

 

[Origanalist]

LOL

 

[Zippyjuan]

Baby boomers are older which makes them grumpier. They don't like change.

 

[shakey1]

Meh

 

[tebowlives]

wow 750 people. That is almost as much as insignificant.

 

[tod evans]

Youbetcha!

I'm a sensitive mother fucker.

 

[Schifference]

Baby Boomers should sue. The term is demeaning to adults.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Considering that millennials are the generation that grew up with the internet and love talking shit to people over it, while boomers tend to solve problems with people by meeting them face to face and not through the means of a computer screen, I find it very difficult to believe that study.

 

[The Rebel Poet]

Considering that millennials are the generation that grew up with the internet and love talking shit to people over it, while boomers tend to solve problems with people by meeting them face to face and not through the means of a computer screen, I find it very difficult to believe that study.

There is no correlation between being able to communicate with fewer barriers and being sensitive.

And shouldn't you be happy that it's easier to call someone a "fat faced slob"?

 

[navy-vet]

Baby Boomers should sue. The term is demeaning to adults.

Put me down

 

[oyarde]

I am not affected by peoples sensitivities so the study is meaningless to me . If they wish to give me a grant for a study I can deliver what the desired results are .