How To Interact With A Narcissist: Be Assertive vs Play Dumb

[Bipedal Primate]

 

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Counter Manipulation should not be confused with hostile aggression(reactive) or instrumental aggression(proactive). Environmental survival adaptation is not rooted in aggression, because evolutionary adaptation is not exploitative, desire based, or meant to harm.

 

1.) Hostile 'reactive' aggression is fear and anger based with the goal of causing emotional and/or physical pain .

 

2.) Instrumental 'proactive' aggression is pre-planned and motivated by a personal desire to dominate and exploit the target.

 

3.) Counter manipulation is an environmental survival adaptation that merely confuses the abuser into voluntarily disengaging with little to no harm to the target.

 

Counter Manipulation is different from reactive and proactive aggression because the target is simply adapting to their environment. The target adapts in order to avoid detection, to distract the predator long enough to get away, or to fool the predator into thinking they are undesirable prey.

 

The process of 'adaptation' is not hostile or exploitative. For example, an instrumental aggressor proactively engages with the goal to dominate and exploit for their own personal gain. A reactive hostile aggressor's goal is to harm the attacker emotionally and/or cause physical harm.

 

"Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators. Throughout the animal kingdom, adaptations have evolved for every stage of this struggle.

The first line of defense consists in avoiding detection, through mechanisms such as camouflage, living underground, or nocturnality. Alternatively, prey animals may ward off attack, whether by advertising the presence of strong defenses in aposematism, by mimicking animals which do possess such defenses, by startling the attacker, by signaling to the predator that pursuit is not worthwhile, by distraction, by using defensive structures such as spines, and by living in a group. Members of groups are at reduced risk of predation, despite the increased conspicuousness of a group, through improved vigilance, predator confusion, and the likelihood that the predator will attack some other individual.

Some prey species are capable of fighting back against predators, whether with chemicals, through communal defense, or by ejecting noxious materials. Finally, some species are able to escape even when caught by sacrificing certain body parts: crabs can shed a claw, while lizards can shed their tails, often distracting predators long enough to permit the prey to escape." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

sources:

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.manipulative-people.com/

http://study.com/academy/lesson/aggressive-behavior-definition-types-signs.html

 

[Pod]

1. If you know they're a narcissist, don't. 
2. If you find out mid-conversation, jump out of window/moving car.

[RichardY]

"Vanity is definitely my favourite sin." Devil's Advocate  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv9zXUd55Sw

 

You could reflect back to the person something they believe to be true, but in simple terms using simple examples so that they realise they are incorrect or not as good as they think they are. Wait for the fireworks though or not.  

 

Best answer is don't.