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Re:Why It Pays to Be a Jerk by msellout on Sunday May 31, 2015 @10:49PM (#9636574)
How would you identify if someone is in fact a narcissist? What does it mean to be a narcissist?

The problem with words is that people think they have a specific meaning. He created one for his study -- narcissism is defined as some weighted combination of those metrics.

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Re:Why It Pays to Be a Jerk by NotOscarWilde on Monday June 01, 2015 @05:44AM (#9637529)
What you describe is verbal sleight of hand. With one hand, one pretends the word "narcissist" has only the precise meaning of the paper, and with the other hand one does not shy away from using that word outside its context, so that everyone, including readers of this article, think of the common accepted meaning.
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