ABSTRACT

Arrogance wins. Look no further than the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The winner, Donald J. Trump, now the forty-fifth president of the United States, is a supremely arrogant man. Why is he that way? Why is anyone arrogant? What is arrogance, and how did it become a common feature of human nature, especially male human nature? Why are we distressed by it, yet arrogance flourishes?