narcissism
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S Mark Young, a professor at the University of Southern California and author of The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America, says Federline's book is unlikely to change people's minds about her.
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025
Narcissism, ambition and flagrant disregard for others in service of art is perhaps only enviable in the abstract.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Narcissism and loneliness are hardly interchangeable personality traits and generally are not present simultaneously.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021
"Narcissism by proxy is not an 'official term' and is also variously called contagious narcissism, infectious narcissism," Durvasula told Salon by email.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2021
Narcissism may have been present, for in my twelfth year I had been told that at the age of 5 and 6 I was an extraordinarily beautiful little creature with long, lint-white hair.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock
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