Mark Button, of the University of Utah, suggests that their false sense of invulnerability also leads to a kind of self-imprisonment, as the truly hubristic person ignores every opportunity for moral counsel and shared judgment.
But not for seventeen desperately ill people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa whose fate suggests that we may not enjoy our sense of invulnerability in the face of TB — and other infectious diseases we've conquered — for that much longer.
Fantasies of invulnerability are suggested, too, by the cyborg, a stock figure in science fiction, which Lee Bul invokes with bionic body parts made in sleek, white porcelain.
Research on adolescent egocentrism suggests adolescents experience personal fable which can lead to an exaggerated sense of invulnerability.
The findings build on similar research in recent years that suggests wealth and power strip people of their inhibitions, increase risk taking and feelings of entitlement and invulnerability.
But I'd like to suggest that there is also a deeper belief about the invulnerability of systems to outside shocks, either on the view that the system is very loosely linked or has a very strong tendency to return to equilibrium.
As a result, Griffin suggested, the collective white nationalist movement "has actually achieved an invulnerability to attempts by democracies to destroy it".
Our findings suggest that, despite the influx of female physicians and students, a 'patriarchal culture', which favors aspects such as rationalism, certainty and invulnerability is still experienced by medical students [ 14].
The conflict suggested that Mr. Berlusconi's survival for three years in office, the very accomplishment he boasts of most, had dulled his luster and worn his onetime invulnerability thin.
In a 2006 New York Times Op-Ed article titled "A Poverty of the Mind," the sociologist Orlando Patterson suggested that the most important liability for many African-American men isn't joblessness or poor education, but what he called the "cool pose," a masculine stance of power and invulnerability that made hanging out, doing drugs and risking going to jail a worthy career.
With invisibility and invulnerability.
