Trump a Risk-Taker? Not So Much
I found this pretty interesting. A new study has found that not all narcissists are risk-takers. Donald Trump immediately came to mind. Experts say he will drop out of the presidential race before the primaries because he won't take any chances of losing, or going down in the polls. I think that's a good call. At heart, he's a quitter. Many studies have found that narcissists often make volatile and risky decisions, possibly because they tend to have inflated views of their own abilities and achievements, according to newswise.com. But in a series of three experiments, researchers found that people who scored higher on measures of narcissism were no more likely than others to make risky choices in lab-based tasks. “I thought that narcissists, given that they are impulsive and have high opinions of themselves, would take bigger risks. That’s what other research would have suggested,” says one of the researchers.“But any association between narcis...