If you follow the running list of the most popular blog posts on Psychology Today, you might very well get the impression that readers are obsessed with narcissists, particularly when it comes to love. Is this the state of modern-day romance? Are readers, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, really consumed by the fear that the dating pool is filled with hidden dangers in the form of narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths (oh my!)? And does psychology, or pop psychology, with all of its advice about the myriad ways to detect whether our romantic partners are narcissists, really tell us anything meaningful about how to avoid such peril?