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Millon characterizes the narcissist’s cognitive style as follows: “For the most part, narcissistic persons have an undisciplined imagination and seem preoccupied with immature and self-glorifying fantasies of success, beauty, or romance. Although narcissistic individuals are nondelusional, they are minimally constrained by reality. They also take liberties with facts, embellishing them and even lying to redeem their illusions about their self-worth. Narcissistic people are cognitively expansive, and they place few limits on either their fantasies or their rationalizations. They are inclined to exaggerate their powers, to freely transform failures into successes, and to construct lengthy and intricate rationalizations that inflate their self-worth or justify what they believe is their right, quickly depreciating those who refuse to accept or enhance their self-image.”1
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Click on the note number to return to where you were above; click on the author's name to go to the bibliographic entry.1Million, 1998a, p. 84