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...loves it when Gawker mocks him, who has a "Joel Stein" RSS feed tapped directly into his veins, who is writing about himself in the third person. I'm a man who called everyone he knows to brag about his low narcissism score. If I'm not a narcissist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Joel Stein Is Not a Narcissist | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

When I ask Pinsky if, perhaps, the test doesn't work on people who unwittingly outsmart it with their genius-level IQ, he assures me that the results were correct. Narcissists, it turns out, can't even fake humility through transparently self-deprecating jokes. So my desire to be in magazines and on TV and on the stage of your child's school play is not a problem. "If you were living in Greek times and decided you wanted to speak in front of the Athenian assembly, does that mean you're a narcissist or that you wanted to participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Joel Stein Is Not a Narcissist | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...hysteria. "Once I've dealt with something, got it all out - you know, vomited and wept and had the big discussion," she says, "I move on." She approaches her characters with curiosity and determination, with an anatomist's keenness to discover what makes them tick rather than a narcissist's desire to refashion them into glibly "relatable" versions of herself. She annotates every corner of her script, which resides in a satchel with a Dictaphone, a notebook, a camera, a pencil case, snapshots and any other tools she thinks she'll need. She's hungry, persistent, questioning. Winslet says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...much larger," says Minnesota-based forensic psychologist Steven Norton. "The money comes in, the power comes in and that pushes them." What's more, says Galieti, the pyramid structure of a Ponzi scam means that there can be only one person at the pinnacle - an appealing idea for a narcissist who would just as soon not work invisible frauds inside a big investment bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bernie Madoff On The Couch | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...Zollner serves as the artist’s more dynamic, optimistic foil. He, in all his self-absorbed vanity, is a character you will love to hate, for beneath his flaws lies a self-consciousness with which the reader can identify. While he may be a narcissist, a pompous jerk, and a pathological liar, he is not defined by those qualities alone. Motivated by commercial opportunism, Zollner is initially attracted to Kaminski only to advance his own interests. But after spending time with the man behind the legend, he realizes that there is just too much to capture, that life...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Kaminski' Got Nothing | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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