11. A person is dismissive toward and contemptuous of true intimacy and vulnerability.
This contempt for intimacy and vulnerability can be traced back to a narcissist’s biggest fear – that in truly intimate relationships, their inadequacies may be exposed, which they feel would prompt the need of the other person to reject or ridicule them, and by doing so, increase their already existing self-loathing and insecurity covered behind layers of grandiose defenses.
12. A person never considers other people’s perspectives and thinks they are always right.
If a self-centered person is faced with an opinion that contradicts their preexisting beliefs, that opinion is going to be automatically invalidated. This leads narcissists to believe they are always right and that their arguments are infallible, which prevents them from realistically assessing reality.
13. A person is often reluctant to talk about emotions – including their own.
Narcissistic people tend to perceive other people’s emotions as weakness and/or fakery, but they also abhor being authentically emotional themselves. According to the Harvard Medical School psychologist Craig Malkin, feeling an emotion “challenges their sense of perfect autonomy” and that for a narcissist, “to admit to a feeling of any kind suggests that they can be affected by someone or something outside of them”.
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14. A person gets bored with people easily.
Since a narcissistic person is primarily driven by their dopamine production, they are constantly on the lookout for new sources of stimulation and entertainment, which leads them to easily replace people when those people become less effective at triggering their dopaminergic responses, or in other words – when those people become boring fairly quickly.
15. A person employs a wide variety of manipulation tactics.
Gaslighting, which we already explained in an article on our website you should definitely check out, is one of their favorite tactics. They also use tactics such as triangulation, where they use a third person to serve as a mediator for their manipulation, baiting, or provoking negative emotional responses in their victims, lying and cheating, among others.
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