Brayden Hall

So they overestimate how often immoral behavior is happening in the population.

We think this is because, you know, like birds of a feather flock together.

So narcissistic students or people tend to have narcissistic friends.

So when you ask your peer group what behavior they're engaging in, it's more likely that they are engaging also in this more immoral behavior.

Yeah, so the second part where the rules don't apply to me, that is more unique to grandiose narcissism.

And that's what's leading them to say they flirt more and people flirt more with them.

So you can't flirt with your professor, but I can because that's okay because I'm special.

But most of this view that this is less morally troublesome comes from just a dimmer view of morality.

So they just find...

And we call it darkness tolerance.

So they're more tolerant of dark behavior or immoral behavior.

They just don't see it as that bad or that big of a deal.

Oh, yes.

I mean, the overwhelming majority of all the participants said that this was like totally morally inappropriate, which is an important point to make that many people miss when reading studies like this.

We're looking at where we're saying that narcissistic people just found it less immoral, not that they found it like totally moral.

So no one is out here wholly endorsing that you should be like winking at your professor in class.

Everyone seems to recognize that that's pretty bad.

Yeah, so we didn't look at that, which was an idea for a future study.

But the previous study in the 80s, they looked at that.

And that was pretty much what they found, that most often students were doing it to get better grades or to get in better graces with the professor.