clinical associate professor at NYU now of both data science and psychology for a long time been interested in psychopathy for personal reasons actually. So we found By a study we were doing in psychopaths just just check on something else that there was an extremely high correlation between insecurity and Narcissism, which you don't usually see in the wild to make sense like you don't see correlations this high In psychology. And then we started talking about how people kind of like perceive art and what makes art art Because in mat lab you can code Um the program to produce figures for you like graphs and things like that and sometimes you make a coding error. It's fit out something that resembles something that you would
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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