Though the personality traits of selfie posters aren't known, Varma wonders if the phenomenon reflects an era of self-absorption.

I am not trying to promote complete and utter self-absorption. Instead, I am simply encouraging women to listen to the voice inside that says "but what do I want?" I have learned in my 18 measly years of existence that listening to that voice can be extremely empowering.

This paper examines one of the central objections levied against neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics: the self-absorption objection.

Storr suggests that the self-esteem fad, which went mainstream in the late 1980s and 1990s, evolved into the epidemic of digitally enhanced self-absorption from which we are said to suffer today.

The episode picks up right where Season 5 left off, for Hannah: She publishes a "Modern Love" column about Jessa and Adam's relationship ("Losing My Best Friend To My Ex-Boyfriend") in The New York Timesa triumph that she follows by treating her next writing projectabout a surf camp retreat in the Hamptons attended by mostly wealthy, white, middle-aged housewives, for whom surfing is the new yogawith characteristic laziness and self-absorption. Once she arrives in Long Island, Hannah blows off the assignment to experience surf camp, instead faking an injury.

The ability to cope with economic crisis can linger for generations in some families while other families are obsessed with health, ambition, inequalities, failure and narcissistic pursuits as reflected in consumerism and self-absorption on social media.

Cassidy is ruthless in her exploration of friendship, jealousy and the self-absorption we are all guilty of.

He also has a dry wit that borders between self-deprecation and self-absorption.

Self-absorption is, and If he wasn't played with such honeyed charm and awe-shucks sincerity by Timothy Olyphant, this show, clocking in at 2 hours and 45 minutes and premiering at the Atlantic Theater Company, would be one long, achy-breaky night.

Synopsis: Many of us live in a prison of self-absorption. Shackled with pride and despair, we compare ourselves to others constantly in our frantic, unending pursuit of perfection.

O'Malley is against narcissism and self-absorption and is big on perspective and has a sense of humor (his favorite comics are the Marx Brothers, Victor Borge, and Carol Burnett).

Comprising six "confessions" from five characters, the bleak picture Minato paints of people so deeply mired in their own self-absorption, so firmly invested in self-worth determined solely by the degree to which others notice them, leaves one despairing of a future for Japans youth other than total moral decay.

The workshop, entitled “Addiction and Self-Absorption,” will address two of the most challenging issues in couples therapy.

"Compared with women, men exhibit more assertiveness and desire for power," Grijalva notes, "but there was no difference in the exhibitionism aspect, meaning both genders are equally likely to display vanity or self-absorption."