You hear a lot of people being called narcissists these days — movie stars, ex-girlfriends, presidential candidates, millennials. The word just seems to come up a lot more than it used to, Rebecca Webber writes in a thoughtful and timely cover story in Psychology Today.
But is narcissism really more prevalent than before? Psychologists' consensus, she says, is no. The condition called narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD, affects only about 1 percent of the population, a figure that has remained about the same since the term was established in 1968.
