Be honest—did the title of this article bring to mind a smartphone-wielding, social-media-scrolling twenty-something? If so, you’re not alone. The term “entitled” has become synonymous with younger professionals, often unfairly. But research tells a different story. In a long-term analysis of nearly half a million high school students, psychologists Brent Donnellan and Kali Trzesniewski concluded that today’s youth aren’t any more self-absorbed than previous generations. Entitlement, it turns out, tends to decline with age—not rise with the times.