The Ass Scale for Pretentiousness

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There's 52 questions in total and when I was developing the scale I have a photo somewhere of a 2 a.m. above on my wall in my bedroom just about like 50 flashcardslike Take up to the wall of different kinds of questions that were pulled from other scales. We wanted to make sure that it was actually asking what we wanted it to So the items in this scale Ask the participant how they feel about art How they feel about themselves And among those who would be most likely to engage in self-elevating performative behaviors. For detecting these uh self-elavary behaviors, hence prison.

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.

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