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Millon offers the following analysis of the narcissist’s behavior: “It is not uncommon for narcissistic persons to act in an arrogant, supercilious, and disdainful manner. They also tend to flout conventional rules of shared social living. Viewing reciprocal social responsibilities as being inapplicable to themselves, they act in a manner that indicates a disregard for matters of personal integrity and an indifference to the rights of others. When not faced with humiliating or stressful situations, narcissistic individuals convey a calm and self-assured quality in their social behavior. Their seemingly untroubled and self-satisfied air is viewed, by some, as a sign of confident equanimity. Others respond to it much less favorably. To them, these behaviors reflect immodesty, presumptuousness, pretentiousness, and a haughty, snobbish, cocksure, and arrogant way of relating to people. Narcissistic individuals appear to lack humility and are overly self-centered and ungenerous. Their self-conceit is viewed by most as unwarranted; it smacks of being ‘uppity’ and superior, without the requisite substance to justify it.”1
Click on the note number to return to where you were above; click on the author's name to go to the bibliographic entry.1Millon, 1998, p. 83; Millon & Davis, 2000