“These types of narcissists are showboaters who love to brag, inflate their achievements, name-drop, and use grand gestures ...

Grandiose narcissism is a pattern characterized by exaggerated feelings of superiority, entitlement, self-importance, an obsessive need for admiration, and a lack of empathy toward others.

How shifts in parenting styles, reality TV, and social media created a self-obsessed culture -- and why we should be worried.

An estimated 1-2% of the United States population has this disorder. Two main types of narcissism are marked by: Grandiosity ...

Narcissism can be expressed in “vulnerable” features (socially-inhibited and neurotic) as well as “grandiose” features ...

Overt/Grandiose Overt or grandiose narcissism is the "classic" type that many people associate with narcissists. This type of narcissist is very easy to spot since they have a clear excessive ...

They tend to brag and be elitist. Those with grandiose narcissism are aggressive, dominant, and magnify their importance. They are very self-confident and aren’t sensitive. This type of ...

Narcissism can be expressed in "vulnerable" features (socially-inhibited and neurotic) as well as "grandiose" features (dominant and extroverted). People with more grandiose features are overtly ...

Experts have proposed categorizing narcissists into a variety of different subtypes, but a popular breakdown in the zeitgeist of late is grandiose (or over), vulnerable (or covert), communal ...