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Are Intelligent Women Less Likely to Fall for Psychopaths and Narcissists?

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)|2020-03-07T12:57:49+03:00March 7th, 2020|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality|Tags: manipulation, narcissism, personality, psychopathy, relationships|

Do you think you would ever fall for a psychopath or narcissist? Most intelligent women think they wouldn’t. But skilled manipulators target all kinds of people. So can your smarts outwit a predator? Let’s find out. How Likely Is It for Intelligent Women to Fall for Psychopaths and Narcissists? We all like to think that [...]

5 Signs of Blame Shifting and How to Deal with It

By Sherrie Hurd, A.A.|2020-02-23T13:35:21+03:00February 23rd, 2020|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality, Psychology & Mental Health|Tags: behavior, communication, guilt, manipulation, mental health, relationships|

One of the things I despise the most is someone who can never take responsibility for their actions. Blame shifting is their second nature. I hate to admit that I’m way too familiar with blame-shifting. For years of my life, I thought everything was my fault, even when obviously it wasn’t – it was complete [...]

Cyberstalking: Examples, Tactics and How to Protect Yourself Online

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)|2020-02-04T12:51:53+03:00February 4th, 2020|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality|Tags: abuse, behavior, crime, Internet, manipulation, mental health, relationships, social media|

Stalking in any form is insidious and menacing. However, cyberstalking takes this kind of threatening behaviour to frightening new levels. The internet has evolved to become the place in which we communicate effectively and quickly. For the vast majority of us, it is a safe and pleasant place to inhibit. But for others, it can [...]

Online Disinhibition Effect Explains Why Some People Become Jerks Online

By Lottie Miles, M.A.|2020-02-01T17:52:21+03:00February 1st, 2020|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality, Psychology & Mental Health|Tags: behavior, communication, Internet, personality, social media|

Trolling others is a common refrain for people online. Indeed, this behavior has become so common that it is now intensively studied by psychologists. Psychologists call this behavior the ‘online disinhibition effect’. But what is it that makes people behave this way? Who are internet trolls? Are some people more likely to act like jerks [...]

I Had an Emotionally Unavailable Mother and Here’s What It Felt Like

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)|2020-01-11T17:15:06+03:00January 7th, 2020|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality|Tags: behavior, childhood, emotions, family, mental health, parenting, personality|

Want to know what it feels like to be raised by an emotionally unavailable mother? Let me tell you my story. Whenever someone asks me about my mother, I say ‘She died when I was young’. When they reply that they are so sorry, I always say ‘It doesn’t matter, she was an evil cow [...]

20 Signs of a Narcissistic Perfectionist Who Is Poisoning Your Life

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)|2019-12-27T17:04:56+03:00December 27th, 2019|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality|Tags: behavior, manipulation, narcissism, perfectionism, personality, relationships, work|

Psychological terms such as narcissism and perfectionist have been around for decades. We understand their character traits, even if we don’t possess them ourselves. But what happens when the two collide? Is there such a thing as a narcissistic perfectionist? And if so, what impact does it have on a person’s life? Understanding the Narcissistic [...]

6 Signs of a Narcissistic Coworker and What to Do If You Have One

By Sherrie Hurd, A.A.|2019-12-06T19:17:57+03:00December 6th, 2019|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality, Psychology & Mental Health|Tags: behavior, mental health, narcissism, work|

Working is hard enough, but do you know what’s worse than that? It’s extremely difficult when you have a narcissistic coworker. There are various work environments, some more taxing than others. I remember working in a factory around many negative situations. Honestly, it was a nightmare. The same can be said for coworkers, I had [...]

Sadistic Tendencies Are Pretty Common – How to Spot Them in People You Know

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)|2019-12-05T15:02:05+03:00December 5th, 2019|Categories: Dark Personalities, Personality, Psychology & Mental Health|Tags: behavior, personality, psychopathy, sociopathy|

We’ve all heard about psychopaths, serial killers and sociopaths. Those of us who are interested in deviant behaviour know what makes up the Dark Triad. And we could probably reel off more than a few character traits from Hare’s Checklist of Psychopathy. But what about sadism? Where does that rank in the above personality trait [...]