There are plenty of resources where you can find clues and signs that someone is a narcissist. For example, signs of narcissism include an inflated sense of self, risk-taking, and a lack of empathy.
The problem is that many of these little hints don’t show up until after you’ve already settled into a relationship with a narcissist.
You see, narcissists are initially charming. Their personalities are alluring and draw you in so that you are in over your head before you even realize anything is wrong.
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But thanks to science, we now know how to tell if someone is a narcissist just by looking at their face. According to a 2018 study, there’s one facial trait that tells us everything we need to know about a person’s true intentions, including whether or not you’re dealing with a narcissist.
It turns out that it’s all in the eyebrows.
If you’ve ever seen a Tumblr dedicated to photos of celebrities without eyebrows, you know how important those two little strips of hair are to your face. It’s not just for looks either. In 2018, researchers released findings revealing that the reason we have eyebrows in the first place is for communication.
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“We propose that converting the large brow ridges of our immediate ancestors to a more vertical frontal bone in modern humans allowed highly mobile brows to display subtle subordinate emotions,” the researchers wrote. Our eyebrows help us show our emotions, often revealing how we feel without us having to say a word.
This study conducted by Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas O. Roll in 2018 indicated that eyebrows also reveal the possibility of narcissistic personality disorder.
In the first part of the study, the researchers manipulated facial features, leading them to the conclusion that “accurate judgments of grandiose narcissism depend particularly on a person’s eyebrows.” The researchers then tried to find out exactly why eyebrows reveal someone’s narcissistic personality, and found that those with thick, bushy eyebrows were more likely to be viewed as narcissists.
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To test their theory, the researchers swapped narcissistic and non-narcissistic eyebrows between faces, and found that a non-narcissistic person wearing narcissistic eyebrows was perceived as having a narcissistic personality.
