It has been argued that adults underestimate the extent to which their preferences will change over time. We sought to determine whether such mis-predictions are the result of a difficulty imagining that one's own current and future preferences may differ or whether it also characterizes our predictions about the future preferences of others. We used a perspectivetaking task in which we asked young people how much they liked stereotypically-young-person items (e.g., Top 40 music, adventure vacations) and stereotypically-old-person items (e.g., jazz, playing bridge) now, and how much they would like them in the distant future (i.e., when they are 70 years old). Participants also made these same predictions for a generic same-age, samesex peer. In a third condition, participants predicted how much a generic older (i.e., age 70) same-sex adult would like items from both categories today. Participants predicted less change between their own current and future preferences than between the current and future preferences of a peer. However, participants estimated that, compared to a current older adult today, their peer would like stereotypically-young items more in the future and stereotypicallyold items less. The fact that peers' distant-future estimated preferences were different from the ones they made for "current" older adults suggests that even though underestimation of change of preferences over time is attenuated when thinking about others, a bias still exists.

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Narcissists are known for having excessively positive self-views, but an equally defining characteristic of narcissism may be a disregard of other people. Could encouraging people to care more about others, or feel more connected to them, reduce narcissism? We describe a series of studies demonstrating that a more communal focus on others reduces narcissistic tendencies. In particular, repeating communal selfstatements (i.e., "I am a caring person"), recalling a time when one was caring, feeling empathy, focusing on monetary expenditures (which increases a sense of dependence on others), and interdependent selfconstrual all situationally reduce narcissism. These effects occur on a small scale but are significant because they establish that communal focus causes changes in narcissism. They also suggest that narcissism may have a state-like or context-dependent component, fluctuating across time and situations. Everyone may have the propensity to be narcissistic, but caring more about others may help to curb narcissism.Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc., was a great innovator and widely influential. He was also likely narcissistic (Henriques, 2012;Nadler, 2012;Thompson, 2011). He was noted for being manipulative, arrogant, self-absorbed, and pre-occupied with his own sense of importance and brilliance. Professional golfer Tiger Woods might also be narcissistic (Cosico, 2010). He has similarly been described as self-absorbed, arrogant, and obsessed with admiration, power, and attention. In addition to such grandiosity and self-absorption, Jobs and Woods may be notable for their ill-treatment of others. Despite being one of the world's wealthiest people, Jobs was criticized for his lack of charity. He insisted that he could do more good putting money into his own company, Apple Inc., than by donating to charitable organizations. He was also known for bullying employees and lacking compassion. Tiger Woods had multiple extra-marital affairs and described his sexual conquests as motivated by power and the excitement of using women as sex objects. As these examples illustrate, although narcissists are known for having excessively positive self-views, an equally defining characteristic of narcissism may be a disregard of other people. In this article, we explore this aspect of narcissism and the possibility that encouraging people to care more about others, or to feel more connected to them, can reduce narcissistic tendencies. Narcissism and Lack of Concern for Others

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Weissman for assistance with data collection as well as the families and children who participated.