Narcissistic personality differences in facial emotional expression categorization

Overview: narcissistic personality disorder.

The authors trace the evolution of narcissistic personality disorder as a nosological entity in a critical survey of the literature, considering and comparing differing theoretical viewpoints regarding the genesis of this disorder. They review its various descriptions, including the one in DSM-III, and develop a composite picture of the syndrome. The disorder consists of characteristic deficits...

Depression in Narcissistic Personality Disorder

But he [Othello], as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them, with a bombast circumstance Horribly stuff d with epithets of war: And, in conclusion, nonsuits My mediators; for Certes, says he, I have already chose my officer. And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, N...

Emotion Sequential Effects in Facial Expression Categorization

Narcissistic personality disorder and suicide.

The American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) suggests that the essential characteristic of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a persistent pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of circumstances (American Psychiatric Association 2013)....

Spontaneous Emotional Facial Expression Detection

Change in a speaker’s emotion is a fundamental component in human communication. Automatic recognition of spontaneous emotion would significantly impact human-computer interaction and emotion-related studies in education, psychology and psychiatry. In this paper, we explore methods for detecting emotional facial expressions occurring in a realistic human conversation setting—the Adult Attachmen...