Scientists Just Figured Out Something Fascinating About Narcissistic Men and Gossip

Image by Getty / Futurism Mental Health The old adage "there's no such thing as bad publicity" seems to apply perfectly to narcissistic men, who in a series of studies were found to be strikingly open to being trash-talked. As PsyPost flagged, a new study conducted by psychological researchers at Duke, the University of Mississippi, and the University Kaiserslautern-Landau in Germany not only found that men were generally more open to being gossiped about than women, but also that narcissistic men in particular were even more accepting of it — even if the gossip was negative. Published in the journal Self and Identity, the study involved a series of phases in which 400 college student participants, recruited through online platforms, discussed at length how they felt about four types of gossip: negative, positive, neutral/ambiguous, or not mentioned at all. As examples, the paper provided a party scenario in which, after attendees leave, the people left begin to speak about them — ... Read full article.