DOES SCIENCE FICTION ENCOURAGE NARCISSISM?

[Anonymous No.15335129]

The great fantasy migration hypothesis:

This supposes that the real world of unemployment and debt is too disappointing for a generation of entitled narcissists. They consequently migrate to a land of make-believe where they can live out their grandiose fantasies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651513/
>A Psychological Exploration of Engagement in Geek Culture
>authored by three women
Abstract:
>Geek culture is a subculture of enthusiasts that is traditionally associated with obscure media (Japanese animation, science fiction, video games, etc.). However, geek culture is becoming increasingly mainstream; for example, in the past year alone, Dragon*Con, a major Geek convention in Atlanta, Georgia, attracted an attendance of over 57,000 members. The present article uses an individual differences approach to examine three theoretical accounts of geek culture. Seven studies (N = 2354) develop the Geek Culture Engagement Scale (GCES) to quantify geek engagement and assess its relationships to theoretically relevant personality and individual differences variables. These studies present evidence that individuals may engage in geek culture in order to maintain narcissistic self-views (the great fantasy migration hypothesis), to fulfill belongingness needs (the belongingness hypothesis), and to satisfy needs for creative expression (the need for engagement hypothesis). Geek engagement is found to be associated with elevated grandiose narcissism, extraversion, openness to experience, depression, and subjective well-being across multiple samples. These data lay the groundwork for further exploration of geek culture as well as provide a foundation for examining other forms of subculture participation.

There are a lot of ppl on /sci/ who seem to fit this pattern, does that prove the validity of "The great fantasy migration hypothesis"?

[Anonymous No.15335175]

I read this as "Greek culture" and thought it was about retards reading Plato and Aristotle.

[Anonymous No.15335176]

>>15335129
Do you know why science has failed to adequately research grandiose delusions? Despite it being one of the most common mental illnesses, it has almost no study. Surely there's a reason for that right?

[Anonymous No.15335227]

>Although they showed slight disengagement from political behavior and more trust in the government, those high in geek engagement were more likely to value career, financial, and activist goals, showing greater engagement in their own lives. Thus, we found mixed evidence for the great fantasy migration hypothesis. It may be that narcissistic individuals are indeed engaging more in geek activities, but are still able to remain engaged in their life goals and in civic organizations that are not involved in politics. In a sense, then, geek culture might be an additional outlet for narcissism but not the only one used by individuals.

>Individuals high in geek engagement in Studies 1–7 above scored high in all of these traits, but barring some depression, reduced crystalized intelligence, and thwarted autonomy, they also showed increased levels of civic engagement and showed no deficits in belongingness, social network size, or future orientation. Thus we have painted a picture of geeks as different, but not dysfunctional.

In other words nothing profound or interesting was noticed.

[Anonymous No.15335275]

>>15335175
lmao me too, I didn't catch it until I read your post. I was actually pretty excited, haha. I guess this makes way more sense.


kill me

[Anonymous No.15335423]

>>15335129
ppl who are that disassociated from reality are incapable of doing science. so when a soi-fi fan talks to you about science, ignore them

[Anonymous No.15335442]

>>15335423
Don't just ignore, know that they are wrong. If you talk to enough of them, like one does on /sci/, you can learn via process of elimination

[Anonymous No.15335667]

>>15335227
>Individuals high in geek engagement in Studies 1–7 above scored high in all of these traits
They also score extremely high in propensity for pedophilia
https://web.archive.org/web/20201111175143/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2005/5/30/the-star-trek-connection

[Anonymous No.15335822]

>>15335227
best single player game in the world

science fiction provides a direction vector towards a divine in a world where god is dead

[Anonymous No.15336012]

>>15335129
It isn't as if those Hollywood movies have those kinds of impacts on people by accident. The media masters know what they're doing.

[Anonymous No.15336505]

>>15336012
they also circulate the idea that communications & psychology degrees are low iq, even though those are the two most powerful & influential degrees you can get.

[Anonymous No.15336576]

>>15335667
It seems we should be very wary of people who "trust the science."

[Anonymous No.15336753]

>>15335129
And what is the ultimate conclusion of all this?

[Anonymous No.15336920]

>traditions ways of supporting narcissism, such as prestigious jobs are becoming less viable for the majority of Americans
why is that?
because we import people from ghana to give the prestigious jobs to?
what if we stopped doing that?
why are we even doing it to begin with?

[Anonymous No.15336992]

>>15335129
What is the point of bullshit like this? That I should stop caring about things I enjoy and instead dedicate my life to suffer while work like a slave for a civilization that gives me almost nothing in return?

[Anonymous No.15336996]

>>15335667
This article is mostly about pedos in general, and at no point it actually tried to explain the connection between being a star trek fan and being a pedo.

[Anonymous No.15337023]

>>15335129
>DOES SCIENCE FICTION ENCOURAGE Narcissism
No, but it attracts leftists who are genetically hardwired to be narcissists.

[Anonymous No.15337813]

>>15336992
Bing bing wahoo

[Anonymous No.15337924]

>>15335129
>YOU MUST BE SOCIAL
>YOU ARE A NARCISSIST IF YOU ARENT SOCIAL
KYS OP and the rest of you who believe in psychology
>Ooh let's study gaymers and their tendencies because we are even lower faggots than they are
So cringe

[Anonymous No.15337932]

>>15336992

[Anonymous No.15337948]

>>15335129
Very insulting article. Their hypothesis was people who go to dragoncon are all autistic geeks that hate women, instead they found they were normal people.

Another gender studies victim trying to prove the world is more sexist than it is. Also dragonballz has a huge black fanbase.

[Anonymous No.15338052]

>>15336992
>I should stop caring about things I enjoy and instead dedicate my life to suffer while work
playtime is for children, do you really want to end up as some sort of reddit manbaby who's 45 years old and still playing video games?
if you don't work to keep civilization then when you're older there won't be civilization, either that or you'll be an unwanted leech living off the efforts of others.
>like a slave
slaves produce something decent, they're a higher class of person than manbaby who only plays like a child. i sure shiggy diggy you're not a diaperfag too, but you'll probably end up as one if all you want to do in life is play like a child.

[Anonymous No.15338537]

>>15337932
good pic, but the italian organized crime meme is glaringly fake, only a product of hollywood's attempt to cast blame away from the real criminals