‘I Ain’t Like You’ A Complex Network Model of Digital Narcissism

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Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity

“…Another textual analysis approach (LIWC) used first-person singular pronouns to detect narcissism (Holtzman et al 2019). In our previous work, we discussed the vulnerable behavior of a narcissist through a complex network model (Jabeen et al 2019). Here, we extend our work by studying popularity and its influence on the responses/behavior of a narcissist.…”

“…Previous studies explained that there is a relationship between narcissism, excessive usage of social media (McCain and Campbell 2018;Panek et al 2013) and reward-seeking behavior (Bushman and Baumeister 1998). In a preliminary version of our work, we presented a complex second-order adaptive network model that explains the reactions of a narcissist in case of positive and negative feedback (Jabeen et al 2019). However, it is also interesting to see how popularity can influence these reactions; this addition is contributed by the current paper, as is a much more extensive empirical study involving 30 social media profiles.…”

Healing the Next Generation: An Adaptive Agent Model for the Effects of Parental Narcissism

“…Also, it discloses how over time the environmental factors can influence the moods, brain and psychology of a person (Treur, 2016(Treur, , 2020. Previously, a temporal-causal model was designed for a narcissist, which reflected how the brain of a narcissist may work, and the reaction (s)he may show over some feedback (Jabeen et al, 2019). Moreover, in our previous work, we presented an agent model of a child, who shows a high tendency to become a narcissist like a parent (Jabeen et al, 2020) or may also learn to act otherwise.…”

“…es happy (when the parent is happy) and es unhappy (when the parent is angry or not happy). For details of narcissistic parent behaviors, we refer to (Jabeen et al, 2019 In such a case, the child believes positive about himself or herself (by cbs+); different brain parts within the PFC and the insula are activated along with the amygdala. This leads to the activation of feelings related to self-reward and selflove, and make this behavior aware.…”

“…One thing to be noted is that we will not discuss the behavioral changes of a parent as they are already addressed in detail in (Jabeen et al, 2019). Therefore, this section is divided into three subsections with respect to different behaviors of a child: a) a child has a strong tendency to exhibit similar behaviors like the parent, b) a child shows resistance to imitate the parent behavior, and c) a child trying to cope with an unhappy narcissistic parent.…”