In public discourse, narcissism is often portrayed one-sidedly and overly negative, rendering
a picture of narcissistic individuals as “toxic people” or “evil characters”. Beyond these …

Background: Childhood maltreatment is theorized to undermine the development of
mentalizing and to disrupt the consolidation of healthy narcissism and the integration of …

Twin studies suggest that both genes and environments influence the emergence and
development of individual differences in self–esteem. However, different lines of research …

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents With Severe Personality Disorders is
a manual for clinicians who wish to learn an effective psychodynamic treatment for young …

Background: We tested a model that incorporated potential developmental assets through
which connections to parents and friends reduce the likelihood of engaging in non-suicidal …

We study the determinants of cooperation by letting children, aged 4–5, and their parents
play an experimental prisoner's dilemma game. We examine whether children's cooperation …

We sought to examine the associations between grandiose (GN) and vulnerable (VN)
subtypes of narcissism and body dissatisfaction (BD), and moderation of these associations …

Feeling special feels good. This may be particularly true for individuals with narcissistic
tendencies who put great emphasis on distinctiveness and uniqueness in relation to others …

Implicit and explicit self‐esteem are not commonly measured in the same children. Using a
cross‐sectional design, data from 354 Croatian children (184 girls) in Grade 1 (M age= 7.55 …

The revised compensation model of aggression posits that bullying is driven by defensive
personality, not low self-esteem. Supporting research has failed to distinguish bullies vs …