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But this study gives us some great new insights into what we thought about narcissism and psychopathy.
Narcissists are not psychopaths and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa.
Having run a forum for 20 years, some of the most unpleasant behaviours of users starts to make sense
They're getting carded by multiple mods across multiple boards, but at all times, it's the fault of the rules, me, the moderators, the left. Never their fault. They flex over their life, their intelligence, their manliness, their success, or reverse it and attack the mods and admins success or manliness - anything to elevate themselves above their "tormentor". They can't admit fault, that would be publicly admitting they are not the person they hold themselves out to be.
Of course that's just my amateur take on it, so I'll never name names.
But read and listen, it's very interesting.
In this episode we explore what narcissism is and what is most-definitely is not. You will learn is that narcissists are not psychopaths, and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa. According to the research of the two psychologists in this episode, narcissism may even need to be renamed, because it isn't excessive self-love, it's excessive self-loathing. Narcissists like Don Draper in Mad Men cope with their insecurity by donning a mask, and then spend most of their lives protecting that mask out of a fear of what will happen if people ever see what it hides.
“For a long time, it was unclear why narcissists engage in unpleasant behaviors, such as self-congratulation, as it actually makes others think less of them,” explains Pascal Wallisch, a clinical associate professor in both New York University’s Department of Psychology and Center for Data Science and the senior author of the paper, which appears in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. “This has become quite prevalent in the age of social media—a behavior that’s been coined ‘flexing’.
“Our work reveals that these narcissists are not grandiose, but rather insecure, and this is how they seem to cope with their insecurities.”
For those who read papers and not just, like me, listen to podcasts like losers:
www.sciencedirect.com
Abstract
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is conceptualized as excessive self-love and divided into subtypes known as grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Psychopathy is also characterized by a grandiose sense of self. Here, we aim to refine the understanding of how these conditions relate. We developed a scale to assess performative self-elevation (FLEX), designed to probe insecurity driven self-conceptualizations that manifest as impression management lead to self-elevating tendencies. We correlated the FLEX scale with commonly used measures to investigate social desirability, self-esteem, and psychopathy in a high-powered sample of participants. We find that FLEX correlates highly with narcissism, but not psychopathy. We conclude that narcissism corresponds most closely to vulnerable narcissism and is characterized by self-elevating behaviors that are well captured by FLEX.
Narcissists are not psychopaths and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa.
Having run a forum for 20 years, some of the most unpleasant behaviours of users starts to make sense
They're getting carded by multiple mods across multiple boards, but at all times, it's the fault of the rules, me, the moderators, the left. Never their fault. They flex over their life, their intelligence, their manliness, their success, or reverse it and attack the mods and admins success or manliness - anything to elevate themselves above their "tormentor". They can't admit fault, that would be publicly admitting they are not the person they hold themselves out to be.
Of course that's just my amateur take on it, so I'll never name names.
But read and listen, it's very interesting.
In this episode we explore what narcissism is and what is most-definitely is not. You will learn is that narcissists are not psychopaths, and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa. According to the research of the two psychologists in this episode, narcissism may even need to be renamed, because it isn't excessive self-love, it's excessive self-loathing. Narcissists like Don Draper in Mad Men cope with their insecurity by donning a mask, and then spend most of their lives protecting that mask out of a fear of what will happen if people ever see what it hides.
“For a long time, it was unclear why narcissists engage in unpleasant behaviors, such as self-congratulation, as it actually makes others think less of them,” explains Pascal Wallisch, a clinical associate professor in both New York University’s Department of Psychology and Center for Data Science and the senior author of the paper, which appears in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. “This has become quite prevalent in the age of social media—a behavior that’s been coined ‘flexing’.
“Our work reveals that these narcissists are not grandiose, but rather insecure, and this is how they seem to cope with their insecurities.”
For those who read papers and not just, like me, listen to podcasts like losers:
Narcissism through the lens of performative self-elevation
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is conceptualized as excessive self-love and divided into subtypes known as grandiose and vulnerable narcissis…
Abstract
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is conceptualized as excessive self-love and divided into subtypes known as grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Psychopathy is also characterized by a grandiose sense of self. Here, we aim to refine the understanding of how these conditions relate. We developed a scale to assess performative self-elevation (FLEX), designed to probe insecurity driven self-conceptualizations that manifest as impression management lead to self-elevating tendencies. We correlated the FLEX scale with commonly used measures to investigate social desirability, self-esteem, and psychopathy in a high-powered sample of participants. We find that FLEX correlates highly with narcissism, but not psychopathy. We conclude that narcissism corresponds most closely to vulnerable narcissism and is characterized by self-elevating behaviors that are well captured by FLEX.
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