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People with NPD are less likely to engage in prosocial behavior. [30] They can still act in selfless ways to improve others' perceptions of them, advance their social status, or if explicitly told to. [31] Despite these characteristics, they are more likely to overestimate their capacity for empathy. [32]
The difference between a "dependent personality" and a "dependent personality disorder" is somewhat subjective, which makes diagnosis sensitive to cultural influences such as gender role expectations. [7] Dependent traits in children tended to increase with parenting behaviours and attitudes characterized by overprotectiveness and authoritarianism.
Self-righteousness (also called sanctimony, sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) [1] [2] is an attitude and belief of moral superiority derived from a person deeming their own beliefs, actions, or affiliations to be of greater virtue than those of others. [3]
chooses people and situations that lead to disappointment, failure, or mistreatment even when better options are clearly available rejects or renders ineffective the attempts of others to help them following positive personal events (e.g., new achievement), responds with depression, guilt , or a behavior that produces pain (e.g., an accident)
Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest and selfishness, even in what seem to be acts of altruism.It claims that, when people choose to help others, they do so ultimately because of the personal benefits that they themselves expect to obtain, directly or indirectly, from doing so.
Haltlose personality disorder was a type of personality disorder diagnosis largely used in German-, Russian- and French-speaking countries. The German word haltlose refers to being "unstable" (literally: "without footing"), and in English-speaking countries the diagnosis was sometimes referred to as "the unstable psychopath", although it was little known even among experts in psychiatry.
These core themes inevitably relate to the concept of selfishness. Locke, for example, sought for people to exercise "self-government"—the idea that an individual should make his/her own decisions. [11] This inherent right would allow individuals to pursue self-interests, rather than suffer the burdens of any altruistic obligations. [12]
Self-sacrifice [1] is the giving up of something that a person wants for themselves so that others can be helped or protected or so that other external values can be advanced or protected. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Generally, the act of self-sacrifice conforms to the rule that it does not serve the person’s best self-interest and will leave the person in a ...