If you believe studies into selfishness, we are all terrible people | Arwa Mahdawi
by Arwa Mahdawi from on (#36DKV)
If you like sitting in window seats, believe in God and go to the gym, science says you're probably a self-centred monster
In these trying times, when everything seems awful, it's worth remembering that people are fundamentally good. Except, actually, they aren't. According to a swath of recent studies, the world is full of terribly self-centred people, and I'm afraid you're probably among them. Indeed, you probably think this article is about you, don't you? Well, perhaps you don't. Not all men are created equally awful and some people are more self-absorbed than others. For purely charitable reasons, I have carefully collated some of the latest selfishness science to help you quantify just how much of an egomaniac you are.
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