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Racial differences in narcissistic tendencies

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Journal of Research in Personality 45 (2011) 456–467 http://www.zeigler-hill.com/uploads/7/7/3/2/7732402/zeigler-hill__wallace_2011.pdf Virgil Zeigler-Hill ⇑,1, Marion T. Wallace Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi,  Black individuals reported much higher scores on the Grandiose Exhibitionism subscale of the NPI than White individuals but there was no difference between the scores of Black and White individuals for the Entitlement Rage subscale of the PNI. Although Black individuals did not report elevated levels of pathological narcissism, the connection between maladjustment and pathological narcissism was particularly strong for Black individuals. This suggests the possibility that pathological forms of narcissism may serve as a marker of vulnerability to psychological distress for Black individuals. This could be due to the manner in which Black individuals with narcissistic tendencies are treated by broader society. That is, n...
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Temperamental differences by race

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Excerpted from: Solving The African IQ Conundrum : "Winning Personality" Masks Low Scores By J. Philippe Rushton VDare August 12, 2004 https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t148855/ Over a century ago, Sir Francis Galton initiated research into individual and race differences in intelligence and temperament. He was the first to propose the study of human twins and of selective breeding in animals to disentangle the effects of heredity and environment. And it was Galton—who spent several years exploring in what is now Namibia as a young man—who first contrasted the talkative impulsivity of Africans with the taciturn reserve of American Indians, and the placidity of the Chinese. Galton further noted that these temperament differences persisted irrespective of climate (from the frozen north through the torrid equator), and religion, language, or political system (whether self-ruled or governed by the Spanish, Portuguese, English or French). Anticipating later studies of tr...
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Behavioral Genetics:

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Why We're Different A Conversation With   Robert Plomin   [6.29.16] What we're trying to do in behavioral genetics and medical genetics is explain differences. It's important to know that we all share approximately 99 percent of our DNA sequence. If we sequence, as we can now readily do, all of our 3 billion base pairs of DNA, we will be the same at over 99 percent of all those bases. That's what makes us similar to each other. It makes us similar to chimps and most mammals. We're over 90 percent similar to all mammals. There's a lot of genetic similarity that's important from an evolutionary perspective, but it can't explain why we're different. That's what we're up to, trying to explain why some children are reading disabled, or some people become schizophrenic, or why some people suffer from alcoholism, et cetera. We're always talking about differences. The only genetics that makes a difference is that 1 percent of the 3 bil...
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