Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believ….

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened..

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than….

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself..

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. Accordi….

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That make….

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales..

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbea….

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing..

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather th….

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation….

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their si….

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale….

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form..

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There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like wor….

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach….

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avo….

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery..

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better….