The Importance of External Validation in Prison

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The flex scale is a subfactor that was derived from prison. It's comprised of four facets that correlated strongly with each other when we did Correlations between the ten facets that were determined in prison. We sort of tie this all in at the end of the paper to the kind of current climate around social media and that There is a space for social comparison unlike there's ever been before.

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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