Antisocial Personality

The antisocial personality differs from the social personality, in the sense of them not wanting to uplift others. The antisocial personality may be critical of the ideas of others, even when the ideas are of value. The antisocial personality types often use persuasive arguments to convince others of their points of view. If an antisocial personality keeps rejecting novel or intellectual ideas of people, after some time the smart people will either leave or stop saying anything novel or intellectual. Antisocial personality types therefore have a suppressive effect on others. By contrast, the honesty of the social personality makes them easily susceptible to depression as a result of the criticism of the antisocial personality types. Those who become suppressed by antisocial personality types, may find it very difficult to see beyond what the antisocial personality types tell them - they accept what the antisocial personality types tell them as reality and they do not try and argue against it, they merely become despondent and feel oppressed as well as depressed. Social personality types also fear the criticism of the antisocial personality types to such an extent, that they suppress their intellect and novel ideas as they fear that these ideas would be rejected - they feel discouraged and lose their motivation.

The antisocial personality types are quite often in leadership roles or they may be part of the system / the establishment. Some of them may use Machiavellian [1] means to make sure that they remain in power and keep those who are their followers in submissive positions.

Often, those who have antisocial personalities also have narcissistic traits. In a video by Dr. Todd Grande, he said those who have narcissistic traits feel genuinely hurt if someone else becomes more successful than them, it is almost like something they have to grieve. Dr. Grande also mentions that those with narcissistic traits may later use the same ideas they previously criticized in others.

References:


 * 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellianism_(psychology)

Media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOcz_EFJnw