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From: USA TODAY

One question reveals: Are you a narcissist?

USA TODAY:

If you are a narcissist, you probably think this story is about you, and you are correct (as you so often are – right?).

That kind of thinking makes it quite easy for researchers to identify the most self-involved among us: They just ask people if they are narcissists. The real narcissists speak right up, a new study shows.

“People who are not narcissists would never say that they are,” because of the negative traits – such as vanity and selfishness – associated with the word, says Sara Konrath, a researcher at Indiana University in Indianapolis and, until recently, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. “Somebody who is a narcissist doesn’t think it’s all that bad and is maybe even a little proud of it.”

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