These findings may dovetail with 2006 results from researchers at the University of Southern California who found that celebrities»
narcissism scores exceeded those of the general population.
Not exact matches
PsyBlog quotes Peter K. Jonason, one of the researchers who documented the correlation, to explain the phenomenon: «Those who
scored highly on the Dark Triad traits [
narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy] are, like many other predators such as lions and scorpions, creatures of the night.
Specifically, those who
scored high for
narcissism were more likely to choose «practicality and the chance of hooking up» as reasons for prolonging a former romantic relationship.
A new study showed that men who posted more online photos of themselves than others
scored higher on measures of
narcissism and psychopathy.
The higher people
scored for
narcissism, the higher they also tended to rate on measures of social dominance and ethnic prejudice.
In fact, men who overshare selfies in social media
score higher on tests for
narcissism and psycopathy, to boot, per a recent study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
image source: squidoo.comJust in case you need another reason to avoid dating narcissists: In a sample of nearly 300 men, those
scoring high on
narcissism, high on psychopathy (e.g., irresponsibility, low empathy, antisocial behavior), and with an unrestricted sociosexual orientation (e.g., the belief that love and sex are separate) were three times as likely (45 %) to report engaging in sexual aggression (e.g., sexual assault and rape) compared to those low on these three traits (15 %).
Compared with those
scoring low on
narcissism, those high on
narcissism, who were the least physiologically reactive group, evinced greater proactive aggression, whereas those showing a pattern of coactivation (i.e., sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic reactivity) evinced greater reactive aggression.
Changing classroom norms to enable youth to acquire status through different means than aggressive displays [64] may be effective for those youth
scoring high on
Narcissism, preventive empathy training [12] may help reduce bullying among youth high on CU traits, and anger regulation [67] may reduce bullying among those youth
scoring high on impulsivity.