Mark Schaller's Study About Fame

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and also had psychological problems sometime during their period of fame. Each of the three were also writers which was a vital part of Schaller's study. Schaller wanted to show that fame increased the self-consciousness in each of these people. To do this he analyzed the songs and stories written by these authors and found an increase in the amount of first-person singular pronouns from before to after their achievement of fame.
According to Phillip L. Ackerman(1997) defining personality would take up a whole chapter in a book. Some would say that a personality includes such things as temperament, attitudes, interests, needs, physiology, morphology, and aptitudes. In order to keep it simple Ackerman labels personality with temperament, needs and attitudes.

Social Behavior is simply how one chooses to act in a community or environment one is in or how to respond to the actions of those around.

Kurt Cobain's fame effected his personality and social behavior in such a bad way ...

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to retreat to solitude. Larry Flint used drugs excessively and became mentally insane as he gained fame through the magazine he created, Hustler, and ffb the controversy it created in the United States.

Taking a look at the results of the self-destruction that fame can cause is relatively easy. To find the reason why one would inflict such damage upon themselves takes more contemplation. Schaller's study gives one explanation of the reason for such self-destruction.

Schaller's(1997) studies show that each of the subjects' self-consciousness had grown as soon as they became famous. At the same time each subject had a certain problem that was damaging their physical and mental self. ...

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