All posts tagged "Narcissism"

Former President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to convince voters that everything was better four years ago just before he left office — despite the fact that unemployment topped out at 15 percent, society was shut down by a lethal pandemic, and Trump himself was demanding that the CDC not take exposed passengers off a cruise ship because "I like the numbers being where they are."

Former George W. Bush strategist Matt Dowd slammed the former president for his self-aggrandizement in an MSNBC segment alongside Dr. Uché Blackstock, after anchor Joy Reid played a clip of Trump's comments about the ship from 2020.

"Can you explain to me how if 9/11 changed all of our lives and the way we travel and everything about our lives when we get on a plane, how is it that people have blown off the fact that Donald Trump utterly failed at that fundamental duty of a president and think he should be president again?" asked anchor Joy Reid....

In a new study published in Current Psychology, researchers found that men with higher narcissism levels reported using more strategies to improve their own and others’ emotions compared to female narcissists. The findings shed light on how gender influences the relationship between pathological narcissism and emotion regulation strategies. Emotion regulation is a process in which one aims to initiate, maintain, modulate, or change the course of feelings. Individuals who regulate their affective states use tactics such as intrinsic and extrinsic affect-worsening and affect-improving strategies......

Former President Donald Trump is already facing federal charges for concealing highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida — but he has now received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith signaling he is likely to face criminal charges in the federal investigation of the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

This will increase legal liability for him — but, argued former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on CNN's "OutFront," it doesn't change the picture of how he wants to lash out against his situation.

"So then, the bottom line is you've talked about the significance of the Mar-a-Lago documents case," said anchor Erin Burnett....

Our interest in narcissism has never been higher, with Google searches for the word “narcissist” having steadily increased over the past decade. This term has become part of everyday parlance, readily thrown around to describe celebrities, politicians and ex-partners. A byproduct of our growing interest in narcissism is a curiosity about what types of narcissist exist. But this is where things get tricky. A search for “types of narcissists” on Google returns wildly varied results. Some websites describe as few as three types. Others list up to 14. What’s going on here? What is a narcissist?The......

Subordinates tend to be most satisfied with leaders who display a small degree of narcissism, according to new research published in Personality and Individual Differences. The study provides evidence for an inverted U-shaped relationship between leader grandiose narcissism and follower satisfaction. The researchers conducted this study to better understand the relationship between narcissism and leadership. They specifically focused on grandiose narcissism, which is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance, lack of empathy, and a strong need for admiration. They wanted to examine......

Researchers In Italy were curious if sadism and grandiose narcissism may be related and what traits may facilitate this relationship. Their findings indicate that malicious envy and narcissistic rivalry are the characteristics that connect sadism to grandiose narcissism. The research has been published in Personality and Individual Differences. Sadism refers to the tendency to derive pleasure from the suffering of others. It has been identified as a component of the “dark tetrad” along with Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. The tendency to take control others is a key characterist......