approval-seeking

Pecking leaning in at the waist, grabbing, qualifying myself to them, asking them approval-seeking questions.

Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

Pecking leaning in at the waist, grabbing, qualifying myself to them, asking them approval-seeking questions.

Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

These are the consistent, patterned actions of a votary of approval-seeking and compelled conciliation.

Sharon O'Connell: Barack Obama, Where Have You Gone? Oh, There. Sharon O'Connell 2011

As a psychologist examining psychology of presidential ambition, what's running through my head is a series of clinical rule-out hypotheses: "ego," manic phase, narcissism, sublimated sociopathy, pathological approval-seeking.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychology of Presidential Ambition? 2010

As a psychologist examining psychology of presidential ambition, what's running through my head is a series of clinical rule-out hypotheses: "ego," manic phase, narcissism, sublimated sociopathy, pathological approval-seeking.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychology of Presidential Ambition? 2010

This helped protect him from the approval-seeking neediness that afflicts so many politicians.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

This helped protect him from the approval-seeking neediness that afflicts so many politicians.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

This helped protect him from the approval-seeking neediness that afflicts so many politicians.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

A life based on approval-seeking quickly degenerates into an empty race for money and status.

Brian Whetten: How to Create Meaningful Ethical Reform in Business 2009

His approval-seeking eyes were unmistakable at that point, overwhelming his normally cool, thoughtful expression.

Van Jones Resigns; Left To Hang By Obama For Cursing Republicans and Signing 9/11 Truth Statement? 2009