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Study: Facebook profiles can be used to detect narcissism

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (118) | comments 11

A new University of Georgia study suggests that online social networking sites such as Facebook might be useful tools for detecting whether someone is a narcissist.





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Twitter trouble: Players told to tweet no more (AP)

Twitter trouble: Players told to tweet no more

Technology / Internet

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- @davidclowney Rex is watching. He's not the only one.


Researcher: Narcissistic bosses destroy morale, drive down bottom line

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

In recent years, the motivations of business leaders such as financier Bernard Madoff and former Enron CEO Ken Lay have come under increased scrutiny as a result of behavior that caused both their employees and the public ...


Shame on us: Shaming some kids makes them more aggressive

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 20, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Aren't you ashamed of yourself? All these years, you've been trying to build up your child's self-esteem, and now a growing body of research suggests you may be making a big mistake. A study published in the December issue ...


Narcissistic people most likely to emerge as leaders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 8

When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism ...


New study measures narcissistic CEOs' effect on corporate strategy, performance

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 18, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Companies led by more narcissistic chief executives tend to make more frequent strategy changes, undertake larger and more frequent acquisitions, and have more extreme and irregular fluctuations in performance, according ...


Sexual attitudes help explain narcissists' relationship problems

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 04, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0

When Robert Browning wrote “grow old along with me, the best is yet to be,” he had no inkling of a future University of Florida study showing that narcissists are more interested in sexual pleasure than lasting intimacy.



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