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This Personality Trait May Be Considered "Narcissistic" By Many, But It Turns Out It Might Actually Be Good For You
While it may feel awkward and a little self-aggrandizing to use, there’s actually research supporting the advantages of talking in the third person, at least in your internal self-talk.
“It really does seem to confer benefits to people in the moment so that they can work through an emotional experience, memory or anxious anticipation of an upcoming event,” said Jason S. Moser, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience program at Michigan State University. “Although, I will say, the way LeBron James used third-person self-talk out loud ― to help him make a difficult, very public, decision to leave his hometown team and move to Miami ― is very different from how Trump typically uses it,” he said. In the case of Trump using third person, Chris Stevens, a psychologist and the host of the podcast Psychology to Live By, believes it’s “grandiosity, pure and simple,” not some ironic joke or a self-care strategy.
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