Posted on 07/23/2020 5:31:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Two recent studies looked at the relationship between personality traits and reactions to restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Researchers found that people possessing so-called "Dark Triad" traits—narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism—were less likely to comply with restrictions or engage in preventative measures against the pandemic. However, researchers also emphasized the small role personality traits have in the overall response to pandemic restrictions, like face-mask mandates and social-distancing requirements.
Both studies, which, combined, surveyed more than a thousand people in Poland, were published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Personality and Individual Differences. In "Adaptive and maladaptive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of Dark Triad traits, collective narcissism, and health beliefs," researchers Bartłomiej Nowaka and Paweł Brzóskaa of the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland, along with co-authors at other universities, surveyed 755 people between the ages of 18 and 78 in the second half of March—in the third and fourth weeks of government pandemic restrictions.
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While psychopaths and narcissists may be less likely to comply with coronavirus restrictions, the evidence doesn't suggest that personality disorders are to blame for social-distancing failures and mask-mandate pushback.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Now this report from NewsWeak "confirms" it.
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Besides, the phrase has a bit of a Gilbert & Sullivan ring to it:
I am the very model of a psychopath and narcissist ....
Next week’s headlines: Study determines that people who regard themselves as patriotic are narcissists and psychopaths.
Yep, de-humanize the opposition.
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Another example of why psychology is not a science but a means to produce pseudo-scientific papers to express and validate one’s prejudices.
I think people who demand masks are tyrants, dictators, and control freaks.
Right on!
Also, in most cases ignorant about a mask’s effectiveness or lack thereof.
Gee. What about people like me that live in a rural county with less than 30 cases and zero deaths since April? Only people wearing masks are a few older people, the workers at stores and medical facilities. Must be a county full of psychopaths.
Crazy Town
This BS article falls under the same category as articles I saw a few years back which basically labeled anyone to the right of Pol Pot as mentally ill. The Left keeps pushing this sort of article; people on the right are mentally ill, not as smart, not deep thinkers, psychopaths, etc.
Any questions as to why anyone on the right might be reluctant to voice their actual opinion to pollsters?
It’s the exact opposite. Narcissists make a pet hobby of virtue signaling every chance they get. The few remaining narcissists I’m connected to on social media have ALL taken mask selfies and posted as their new profile pic. Narcissists’ weakness include avoiding any kind of negative focus on themselves; they can’t bear criticism. This is partly why B-HO spent his junior senator career playing it safe, and why his pencil neck is a swivel magnet to teleprompters. Narcissists can NEVER look badly.
Narcissists and Psychopaths Are More Likely to Refuse to Wear Masks...
I’m too smart, too important, and much better than you. I don’t need no stinking masks. Besides I will hurt you and kill you if you try and make me wear one.
So. Where do you get off calling me a narcissist and psychopath?
The only real reason I see to wear these masks (in most instances) are because the business says you have to in order to do business in their store. They most likely are not aware of all the pros & cons of such behavior, but are just following a directive. It’s an upper management problem. There are possible exceptions, such as wearing them in a medical facility, but even there is little evidence to bear it out as being very effective. In most cases the mask is just a waste of time, but what it comes down is just following orders from above by those who have little or no real knowledge of the subject.
Thank God I’m only a sociopath!
Communism has a foothold in America now. When will we fight back? Remember Gulag Archipelago.
Oh and you’re so neutral, in the middle? Bull. Take a stand, coward.
Enjoy your training burkha.
Lazy. Call a complete stranger a narcissist or psycho for non compliance.
They could just be independent thinkers who see totalitarians trying to leverage a mid-level disease outbreak.
I am neither a narcissist nor a physcopath and i did not wear a mask u til Newsom demanded it!! I do not put on that damn mask until I am right at the door of the store!! I have my MAGA mask if I have to wear the damn thing it is worth pissing off all of the CA. snowflakes LOVE the looks I get, I know they just want to rip that mask right off my face!!
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