Key insights from
The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding One of the Greatest Psychological Challenges of Our Time―and What You Can Do About It
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15 minute read
Published Sep 29, 2020
What you'll learn
The word “narcissist” is searched about one million times a month. It is invoked in the most casual of conversations, and plenty of people wonder if their bosses or their lovers are narcissists. But do we know what narcissism is? The clinical understanding of what narcissism is and isn’t has changed a great deal in only the last decade, so we might not. In The New Science of Narcissism, a social psychologist harnesses the most recent scientific findings to delineate the contours of narcissism, identifies common places it shows up in our current world, and offers guidance for navigating the narcissism of others—and our own. After all, Campbell argues, each of us is at least a little narcissistic.
Key insights
- 1 Narcissistic individuals are most commonly typed as grandiose, vulnerable, or some blend of the two.
- 2 Low agreeableness (or high antagonism) is the personality trait that all narcissists have in common.
- 3 Relationships with narcissists are like chocolate cake: gratifying at first, but not very nourishing.
- 4 Many facets of geek culture are compatible with grandiose narcissism.
- 5 Social media is a dream come true for narcissists: a captive audience in the palm of their hand.
- 6 Narcissism’s drawbacks are obvious enough, but there are aspects of it that we would do well to leverage.
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