Narcissists' Brains Don't Sync

A Finnish study (the 'Faces of Narcissism' project) scanned 58 volunteers chosen from a 1,000‑person survey while they watched videos of actors receiving admiration or stinging feedback. People who scored higher on grandiose narcissistic traits showed lower intersubject neural synchrony in brain regions tied to interpreting social situations and cognitive empathy, implying they attend to or interpret social scenes differently rather than being uniformly uninterested. — If narcissistic attunement is neural and systematic, it helps explain why interpersonal and political disagreements persist and why some people are harder to persuade or to empathize with — affecting workplace dynamics, media influence, and public trust.