A growing number of studies certainly show they're convinced that it's their inbred talents that make them wealthy and successful – and that if the rest of us don't share their status, it's simply because we don't share their traits.
Western-style adoptions and cross-cultural families are rare in Qatar, and a report by Qatari police earlier raised questions about why the Huangs, who are of Asian descent, would adopt children who did not share their "hereditary traits".
In the deeply troubling phenomenon of suburban jihadists, young people with narcissistic traits may also be attracted to what terrorism expert Raphaello Pantucci calls "jihadi cool".
Because their gender roles involved a mixture of both masculine and feminine traits, two-spirit persons could do both the work of men and of women.
No, the core characteristics of the new He-Man are deduction, humour, acuity, forethought; it is an un-gendered sweep of traits that boil down to intelligence.
Traits that correlated more closely in non-identical twins compared with identical twins indicated a greater influence of environmental factors.
But while in psychotic patients these traits are too pathological to allow creativity, in a healthy individual they can contribute towards brilliance and inspiration".
At the pope's general audience this week he outlined the traits of a good father and told a story to illustrate.
'High Art' was perceived by the majority as desiccated, pretentious, irrelevant bullshit - a symbol of the worst traits of the posher classes - while on the other hand the demotic and popular pieces of art that spoke to this majority were regularly demeaned as being formally simplistic, or dismissed as sentimentally inclined, as if this were a fault in itself.
Researchers identified five key traits of a well-managed marine park – no fish take, well enforced, established for longer than 10 years, larger than 100 square km and isolated by deep water or sand.
If these traits continue to define it, then hope remains that the digital dark age can be prevented.
