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How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
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How to Tell If You’re a Jerk

If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.

Eric Schwitzgebel
Nautilus, 2016
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Everyone can be a “jerk” sometimes, but some people are better at it than others. Author, blogger and philosophy professor Eric Schwitzgebel takes a light-hearted look at the weighty and familiar personality commonly known as a jerk. Schwitzgebel shares insightful anecdotes backed by academic studies to define what makes someone a jerk, to explain the mind-set of jerks and to help everyone reduce their level of “jerkitude.” getAbstract recommends this article to readers who suspect they might not be as lovable as they hope.

Take-Aways

  • It is difficult to scientifically define what it means to be a “jerk” and to evaluate whether someone is one.
  • Narcissists, Machiavellianists and psychopaths have personalities that overlap with jerks.
  • Jerks can self-evaluate by taking notice of how they view and treat the people with whom they interact.

About the Author

Eric Schwitzgebel is an author and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He blogs at The Splintered Mind and his latest book is Perplexities of Consciousness.

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