Just a quick link to this paper, “The affective and cognitive empathic nature of the dark triad of personality,” which found evidence,
…indicating that individuals high on narcissism, primary psychopathy, and Machiavellianism experienced positive affect towards sad emotions
Also,
…primary psychopathy and Machiavellianism were associated with experiencing negative affect towards happy expressions.
If you’ve ever known a Narcissist, you will find them to grow increasingly depressing, as your relationship with them wears on. That depressing quality is a purposeful cognitive manipulation to make you sad, which in turn makes them happy. I’ve actually seen a male Narcisssist depress someone by focusing them on a sad aspect of their life. Once the target was sufficiently depressed, the Narcissist smiled, puffed out his chest, and raised his chin, as if simultaneously exceedingly pleased, and proud of his manipulation. It was surreal, and I would bet my stunned and confused facial expression as I watched, would have been funny as hell on tape.
This is why you cannot remain in contact with a Narcissist. They are like Terminator robots sent back in time specifically to screw up your happiness. That is a primary psychological drive in them. Even stranger, they know this about themselves, and revel in their bizarre urges – as well as your “stupidity” in being unable to figure out that this is what they are about.
Given that it is just accepted today that Narcissists are unusually common within politics, it makes you wonder if our leadership is actually fucking everything up on purpose, and deriving copious pleasure from all the misery they are producing. Could they actually be producing a collapse purposefully, just to watch all the little people get unhappy?
Strangely enough, the science would say that is likely exactly what is happening….
Much of my traffic is from “the Manosphere” even though I’ve written a lot of articles criticizing many of the concepts. One of the more foolish is that “Chicks dig the Dark Triad.” I’ve pointed out these writers don’t even know what the Dark Triad is and how it manifests itself in reality. If they investigated it they’d be horrified.
I agree the dark Triad is bad news, and most people have no idea.
I would say though, Narcissists are made happy, by unhappy facial expressions, if the above can be believed (-it can, I’ve seen it firsthand). It makes me wonder if that translates to narcissist club girls (the types PUAs get the most experience with, due to their pick-upability) preferring Kanye’s unhappy scowl to a happy, smiling guy, on a very deeply programmed, almost subconscious level.
Makes as much sense as any other attempt to apply logical reasoning to female behavior. 😉