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" If you want to find out if somebody&amp;#039;s a narcissist you can either make them take a 40-question diagnostic test. Or you can ask them one very simple question: are you a narcissist? A new study has revealed that individuals who scored high on the old diagnostic test were very likely to respond to being asked if they&amp;#039;re a narcissist with a &amp;#039;yes&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s pretty cool actually, because narcissists aren&amp;#039;t afraid to tell you they&amp;#039;re narcissistic,&amp;quot; says Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and a professor of communication and psychology at The Ohio State University. &amp;quot;If you ask people whether they have casual sex or take drugs, they&amp;#039;re not likely to be honest with you. But narcissists just aren&amp;#039;t ashamed of their narcissism... and they&amp;#039;ll tell you so.&amp;quot; That actually makes sense, right? Because narcissists are egotistical, self-focused, and vain. So it would follow suit that a dedicated narcissist wouldn&amp;#039;t see self-obsession as a bad thing.  Unfortunately it looks like a lot more people will be answering &amp;#039;yes&amp;#039; soon, as Dr Bushman&amp;#039;s previous research has shown that narcissism is becoming a much more common trait, and it&amp;#039;s all down to social media. Nice one, social media\u2026 &amp;quot;In today&amp;#039;s digital age, when anyone can broadcast themselves to the world, narcissism is becoming more of a problem. Social media is absolutely related to narcissistic behaviour.&amp;quot;\u00A0 He added: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been studying aggression for about 30 years, and I&amp;#039;ve seen that the most harmful belief that a person can have is that they&amp;#039;re superior to others. Men are better than women, my race is better than your race, my religion is superior to your religion. When people believe they&amp;#039;re better than other people, they act accordingly. He hopes that more research into the subject can help us understand where narcissism comes from, and perhaps help us to eradicate it. &amp;quot;If people could believe that everyone on the planet is part of the same human family, and deserves the same respect, so many problems would be solved.&amp;quot; Amen. Follow Anna on Twitter. Like this? Come and check us out on\u00A0Snapchat Discover.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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