Are Narcissists Predictable? The Science Behind Their Actions

Indeed.

And there is one litmus test that is fast, uncomplicated, and straightforward.

Bring attention to the fact that what they said was abusive. Fight them head-on. Take them to task for their use of gaslighting.

If their face falls and they rush to apologize in a sincere manner, this is an example of innocent gaslighting (and then they begin to abandon that terrible behavior, or else… it was phony after all).

If they engage in any type of denial, rationalization, transferring responsibility, trivializing, minimizing, dismissing, disregarding, ignoring, pretending, derailing, or excuse making, then you may be certain that they did it on purpose.

According to some individuals, the presence of intrinsic meta-phenomena or emergent norms confers a great degree of predictability onto evil.

It is possible to identify some archetypal scenarios in which evil will always end up selecting the same response. There is also the possibility of doing scientific research on these scenarios, provided that we have the appropriate methods to do so.

Similar to how cancer is not just a mass of flesh, evil is not just a word; it has unseen internal structures that covertly regulate its behavior. These structures are similar to the way that cancer is not just a lump of flesh.

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