As a person who has spent his life studying psychology and sociology, with the specialty, Sociology of Mental Illness, I am drawn to this phrase from the article about that study:
“These are people who often see themselves as superior and are keen to display this to others.”
BUT! They want to see see themselves as superior... and keen to display. Guess what? They do not see themselves as superior. They are trying to be noticed as superior, but really know they are not what they want to be. To get noticed, they must continually prove to themselves that their cars are something special, so that you notice and think the driver must therefore be special. As the study points out, many people who driver great cars simply like quality. These people are not driven by a desire to prove anything, so they drive normally. Too many tweakettes fall into the same category, by obsessing on proving to themselves how special they are, when they could be listening to and enjoying great music.
