Analysis Of Bundy's Attractiveness

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glib/superficial charm because he would always use his attractiveness to draw the attention of females then smooth talk them into thinking he was a harmless person who was actually hurt in order to lure them. Bundy would also sweet-talk the guards and staff at correctional facilities in order to get to on their good side in order to make appeals for his execution. He was known as a handsome charming person to people who had interacted with him. Grandiose sense of self-worth is when individual views himself a superior and everyone else as inferior compared to them. (Hare, 2003) Bundy viewed himself as a genius and highly attractive and would always talk in interviews about how it was easy to lure girls because he was so handsome and that he

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