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October 10, 2011

Schwarzenegger's Self-Promoting Statue

Stephanie Pappas, Live Science


AP Photo

Photographs of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger grinning next to a self-commissioned, larger-than-life bronze statue of himself in his body-building days may be eyebrow-raising, but social scientists say that Schwarzenegger is simply following a trend laid down by thousands of years of human history.

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TAGGED: narcissism, psychology, Arnold Schwarzenegger

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