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Here’s a trait you don’t necessarily want in your boss, or in any leader for that matter: high levels of narcissism. According to a team of researchers in the Netherlands, narcissistic leaders are those who tend to be “self-absorbed and hold beliefs of entitlement and superiority.” The researchers add that these leaders’ “aggressive tendencies in…

Who says you have to be a person to have a personality? A new study from researchers University of British Columbia’s Animal Welfare Program has identified specific personality traits that tend to stay the same in individual cows over time. The point of departure for this research was previous work showing that individual cows often…

You might have a certain picture of what a “millennial” looks like. Plugged into social media, snapping selfies, entitled, self-absorbed. In short, narcissistic. The narcissistic millennial is a trope that many journalists have taken and run with. For example, one New York Post columnist was so eager to pile on the millennial-bashing that he wrote…

A long-standing and common perception associates creativity with neurotic behavior (and other forms of maladapted or depressive personalities.) We’ve all heard the stories of some of the greatest artists and minds – and their neurotic, addictive and unstable behaviors.  From writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe’s drinking, erratic behavior, and suspected mental illness, to scientist…