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The concept of virtue signaling is most often used by those on the political right to denigrate the behavior of those on the political left. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is similar to the idea of grandstanding . [ 1 ] [ 6 ] One practice sometimes cited as an example of virtue signalling is greenwashing , when a company deceptively claims or suggests that its ...
Illustration of the triad. The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, [1] that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy.
A 2024 University College Dublin working paper used a signaling game to measure if ideology is used by individuals to signal their high status. The study concluded that, while luxury beliefs are associated with left-wing political views, there was no evidence that individuals are using them to signal.
Collective narcissism is a type of narcissism where an individual has an inflated self-love of their own group. [69] While the classic definition of narcissism focuses on the individual, collective narcissism asserts that one can have a similar excessively high opinion of a group, and that a group can function as a narcissistic entity. [69]
Narcissistic defenses are among the earliest defense mechanisms to emerge, and include denial, distortion, and projection. [4] Splitting is another defense mechanism prevalent among individuals with narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder—seeing people and situations in black and white terms, either as all bad or all good.
Primary identification is the original and primitive form of emotional attachment to something or someone prior to any relations with other persons or objects: [6] "an individual's first and most important identification, his identification with the father in his own personal prehistory...with the parents". [7]
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The Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI), Narcissistic Grandiosity Scale (NGS), Interpersonal Exploitativeness Scale (IES) and Psychological Entitlement Scale (PES) are among those tests that have been researched to replace the NPI, though some don't directly measure narcissism and instead measure a subcategory of narcissism like Entitlement.