Why Narcissists Cheat (And the Surprisingly Simple Way to Stop It) (opens in new tab)

At some point—and again, no one sent a memo—we decided that narcissists cheat because they are, in essence, morally defective. They lack empathy. They crave admiration. They feel entitled. Case closed. Except the research doesn’t quite cooperate with that story. What we’re discussing in this post is less theatrical and more precise: narcissistic behavior is not constant—it is conditional. It emerges when certain psychological and situational variables align. And when those variables are disru...