What Is Narcissism: The Psychology of Extreme Self-Focus
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What Is Narcissism: The Psychology of Extreme Self-Focus

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Narcissism ranges from healthy self-confidence to Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Research by Pincus, Campbell, Twenge, and Roberts examines the...

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placed NPD at approximately 6.2% over a lifetime in clinical settings and
+placed NPD at approximately 6.2% over a lifetime in community samples, an
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Timothy Judge and colleagues' 2006 meta-analysis examined multiple studie
+A 2015 meta-analysis by Grijalva and colleagues examined multiple studies
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In 1978, the management theorist Michael Maccoby published an article in…
+In 2000, the management theorist Michael Maccoby published an article in…

Why this is better

All 3 corrections were already applied correctly in the article body, but two secondary locations still had stale/unfixed copies of the fabrications. (1) Bibliography: the required Grijalva et al. (2015) 'Narcissism and leadership: A meta-analytic review of linear and nonlinear relationships,' Personnel Psychology, 68(1), 1-47 citation was missing entirely from the Sources list even though the body now cites it - added it (the real, legitimate Judge, LePine & Rich 2006 citation was correctly left in place since it is a genuine primary study, just no longer mischaracterized as the meta-analysis). (2) FAQ field contained three stale fabrications matching the original errors: the NPD prevalence answer said '6% in clinical settings and around 1% in the general population' (reversed clinical/community framing); the leadership-and-success answer attributed r=0.34/r=-0.11 to 'A 2006 meta-analysis by Timothy Judge and colleagues' instead of the actual 2015 Grijalva meta-analysis; and the same answer said Maccoby's HBR article was from '1978' instead of 2000. Fixed the article content (added bibliography entry) and all three FAQ answers, decoded/re-encoded the faq field (base64->json->base64->json), PUT the post, and verified via re-fetch that both content and faq now show the corrected facts with no stale copies remaining.

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