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Do today's young people really think they are so extraordinary?

01-17-2008 · EurekAlert!

An article appearing in the February issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, found no evidence that today's young people have inflated impressions of themselves compared to the youth of previous generations.

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