Machiavellianism

Narcissism, envy and stress: the eternal golden braid*

April 3, 2012
By
salieri

Hiding your envy is stressful.

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In cold blood: Case study of 14 year old boy who lied about being suicidal, burned down his church, and hit his father on the head with a crescent wrench indicates it’s nature, not nurture

March 6, 2012
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Boes AD, Grafft AH, Joshi C, Chuang NA, Nopoulos P, Anderson SW. Behavioral effects of congenital ventromedial prefrontal cortex malformation. BMC Neurol. 2011 Dec 2;11:151. PubMed PMID: 22136635; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3265436.

His father said the most concerning aspect of the episode was that he did it "in cold blood, without any emotion."

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From the archives: Neurolaw in Deadwood: Lawlessness and revenge. First posted October 18, 2010

October 27, 2011
By
Fortune Cookie

We said this time was different. See our post from a year ago.

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Make you feel my love, which is different from understanding my love but not necessarily feeling it

October 11, 2011
By
Adele

Readers, I'd go hungry. I'd go black and blue. I'd go crawling. Down the avenue. No, there's nothing. That I wouldn't do. To make you feel my love. So long as you have the wiring.

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Does your personality get on everyone’s nerves? Blame your white matter.

September 5, 2011
By
Uncinate fasciculus

White matter correlates with personality. Thank you brain imaging department for talking to the psychology department.

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Blogging C-SPAN Financial Regulation, Dateline, Capitol Hill: Senate Banking Committee Lacks Gag Reflex

June 22, 2010
By

Off topic.

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Joran, Joran, Joran

June 14, 2010
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Joran van der Sloot and Wall Street: Ms. Tavakoli's dead-on analysis.

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Were your e mails made public by a Senate investigative committee? Want to reinvent yourself as a less fabulous version? Overcome your neural and immune memory first.

April 28, 2010
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Were your e mails made public by a Senate investigative committee? Want to reinvent yourself as a less fabulous version? Overcome your neural and immune memory first.

Fabulousness and synapses.

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The Mediocre As Socially Dominant

April 19, 2010
By
The Mediocre As Socially Dominant

What if you put transcranial magnets on everyone?

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Are you a Who fan or do you just like “4′s”? Quadrophobia and Quadrophenia.

March 1, 2010
By

Investment advice by numerology. Example: Today is 03.01.10, and if you add 3 + 1 + 10 = 14 and then 1+4 = 5. But we'll call it "4" because of our quintophobia and quadrophilia if we have a negative EPS. Accounting judgment and all.

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