A Facial Expression Associated With Narcissistic Personality Disorder

I have no idea if James Baker has NPD, but was struck by this photo.

Baker

I have never seen a non-Narcissist exhibit that particular cheek/eye appearance in normal social circumstances, almost a combination of horror, physical pain, and crying, but every Narcissist I have known exhibited it at some point. It will be much more subtle among the young, and get’s more pronounced with age. It is usually one of the early expressions you will see as you begin an amygdala hijack of them, so I assume it relates to some deeper state of the amygdala, or more accurately, the ACC’s activation at the behest of the amygdala.

One of the problems the Republican party has is if a Narcissist is smart enough he will realize that he should be embarrassed by being known as a liberal. When that happens, he will try to be a Republican. However what you end up with is still a coward, unable to think clearly due to amygdala dysfunction, who needs to tell himself he is better than everyone around him. Often, unable to demonstrate superiority honestly among real K-strategists, the way they seek to demonstrate their superiority is by showing how much more reasonable they are than the rest of “their own.” Usually, as would be expected of a Narcissist strategy, everyone else must be denigrated in some fashion, often as some sort of primitive, un-evolved person, who isn’t superior like the Narcissist.

I have little doubt Baker would deride the ardent conservative ideologue as some sort of uneducated knuckle-dragger, compared to Jeb or Mitt.

I don’t see that in Cruz, and obviously Trump seems as at war with the Bakerites as anyone. This is the war within the Republican Party. It will end when resource restriction angers the grassroots of the party enough that they are willing to drive the Narcissists from the party’s leadership by any means necessary – even the destruction of the party itself.

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8 years ago

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Marc Bahn
Marc Bahn
8 years ago

It looks like an 86 year old man laughing. Nothing odd about it, based on his photos here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baker

But <i.this is funny:
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DevilMeNot
DevilMeNot
8 years ago

Wow, I have seen this too, on some “family” members and “friends”. It does look horrid.
I have a “friend” turning 50ish and looks like this in nearly every photo she emails me,
to document her superior life. Since I’m not on FaceBook like the rest of this narc society, she feels she has to send a million photos of herself via email. The latest photo has her making a shockingly similar face in a casino/bar after some heavy metal concert.standing next to some aging band member she trapped. He looks amused and/or aggravated. Do these people think they look good in these photos, so they post
them on FB or send them to friends? I have always wondered about this. What do you
think AC?

Sam J.
Sam J.
8 years ago

The party will destroy itself from stupidity eventually if they don’t stop mass immigration.

Dyson
8 years ago

As to bodily type, they belong most frequently to Kretschmer’s athletic type. The facial expression usually shows hard, sharp masculine features, but often also feminine, girl-like features in spite of athletic habitus.