How can narcissists be so successful professionally when people can't stand them personally? New research explains this surprising paradox, according to swhitbo
People high in narcissism tend not to be very popular once you get to know them well, yet they are often highly successful.Getting away from the grip of narcissists may just be a matter of realizing you don't need them to make your life better.
For the most part, people high in narcissism don’t actually have that much luck in their relationships, at least according to research on the long-term prospects for their ability to retain a partner after the initial glow wears off.
As theoretical background to the research, the Hong Kong researchers rely not on a deep psychodynamic orientation but instead draw from what’s called a social constructivist view of. This approach maintains that your personality is, as the term implies, “constructed” by the way that others view you. People look at your behavior and, from that evidence, make inferences about the qualities within you that produced that behavior.
The narcissists who are able to wield their power over others, argue the Hong Kong researchers, are the ones with this high level of desirable expertise. The combination of expertise and power dependency, as Xu et al.