Friday Dysfunctional Roundup: “Dysfunction*” and “Narcissis*” in the news (14+ stories)
Friday, June 6th, 2008Brain Dysfunction in Cribbing Horses Gives Researchers Something …
TheHorse.com, KY - Jun 3, 2008
In the first study of its kind, researchers from the United Kingdom have discovered that cribbing horses learn differently than horses that don’t crib. …
Emotional trauma linked to brain dysfunction
Los Angeles Times, CA - May 30, 2008
Healthy adults who were near the [...]
Narcissism Research Round-Up
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
What’s the latest research on narcissism? Three studies discussed:
1. Narcissists are motivated to achieve a desired outcome (probably further personal glory) but not that motivated to avoid a negative outcome.
2. Depressive symptoms induce paranoid symptoms in narcissistic personalities (but not narcissistic symptoms in paranoid personalities).
3. On-line gamers are reported to be high on the [...]
“Family Annihilators”: Whether mad or sad, it’s entitlement and control
Thursday, May 15th, 2008It seems like every day the news has another story about some guy who guns down the wife and kids, optionally committing suicide. The question, “why?” is too small to ponder in view of the enormity of the evil shown by these types of mass murderers. Lately these guys who kill their kids and [...]
Book review: David Einhorn’s “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story”
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Nevermind that I haven’t read the book I’m about to review — this post is about white-shoe whistleblowers.
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Heather Mills: Like Divorcing A Batterer ?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Heather Mills “Victory” sign via Daily Mail
Heather Mills’ self-serving public statements demonstrate two major themes: lack of justification of behaviors toward her and minimization and justification of her behaviors toward Sir Paul and others. Ms. Mills is similar to men who are in batterer intervention programs — both display this type of self-deception, as [...]
Why Microsoft is a Dysfunctional Narcissist acting like IBM from the ’70s, and Yahoo is an enabler, but Google knows what is going on and so Microsoft is smearing it
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Boy was that Scientific American article on good v. evil companies timely. So, after being branded as the “evil empire” for years, why am I again repeating this? Because Microsoft is positioning itself as a victim. It is not. Microsoft is an evil narcissist. IMO.
Narcissus
Over the years, Microsoft has forced me to pay [...]
ISO Psychopath or Narcissist
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Google Trends is a good way to waste time.
Here’s an interesting analysis: what term is searched more, “psychopath” or “narcissist”?
Results (right click and you can enlarge, or the link above should take you to this analysis)
Here are some excerpts of an article called which showed up in the search, Six Ways To Spot The Workplace [...]
Movie Review:”Margot at the Wedding” and “The Hoax”
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008A new feature: Neuro movie reviews.
How come movie reviewers aren’t required to understand human nature?
Are they all entertainment reporters? Do they not know how to write a critique, including the emotional content of the story? Like this one for Harold and Maude, one of my all time favorites, written by Roger Ebert in 1971? How [...]
Neuro Music Review: Cheap Trick Concert
Monday, December 31st, 2007Cheap Trick has been around since the ’70’s and ’80’s, and I never thought about being a fan. Through a friend’s cousin’s friend, I snagged a free ticket — a V.I.P. free ticket — to a show last night.
(Cell phone photos to come as soon as I find that little thing for the [...]