When young , beautiful Dorian Gray spies himself in the mirror and realizes he will age while his house painting remains everlasting , he wish that he could betray his somebody to remain beautiful while the painting ages . Miraculously , Gray ’s wish is granted , allowing the narcissistic Gray to live a living of dish . But Dorian Gray may not have possessed the self - awareness that modern day narcissist have — most narcissist know they bother others .
Erika Carlson , a psychology grad student at Washington University in St. Louis , conduct two study about narcissism and wrote about them in a paper called " You Probably Think This newspaper ’s About You . " In the first study , 110 college students ( 41 hands and 69 women ) participated in modest group weekly for an total semester . When the chemical group initially met , the students rated one another on 10 personality traits and completed a self - valuation . Then the groups iterate the exercise during the last hebdomad . Narcissists awarded themselves eminent marks on intelligence information , likability , and physical attraction during ego - appraisal , and initially their compeer gave the same stellar Gospel According to Mark . But by the last of the semester , the narcissist wore on their peers and most lowered their opinions of the more self - involved students . The surprising affair is that the narcist clear they bother the others . ( Experts had believed that narcist were n’t able-bodied to influence how others thought of them . )
In the 2d work , 374 Air Force recruits ( 254 men , 120 women ) who spent six months of introductory training together evaluated each other at the kickoff and end of the time . Because they spent more time together , they were more than mere acquaintances and perhaps better able to evaluate one another . The results were the same — narcissist came off very well at first , but presently became irritations .
Even though they might realise they aggravate others , narcissists most likely believe that they are less democratic because others do not take in their genius.***Shown above is Caravaggio ’s classical picture of Narcissus , the namesake for narcist
