Distress and retaliatory aggression in response to witnessing intergroup exclusion are greater on higher levels of collective narcissism

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Conditional Parochial Vicarious Ostracism: Gender Collective Narcissism Predicts Distress at the Exclusion of the Gender Ingroup in Women and Men

“…Previous studies show that individual narcissism enhances distress among participants who experienced exclusion first-hand (Blinkhorn et al, 2021;Twenge & Campbell, 2003). However, evidence also indicates that collective, not individual, narcissism predicts intergroup attitudes and behaviors (Golec de Zavala et al, 2009, 2022Hase et al, 2021). These analyses were not pre-registered, but they help to illustrate the unique role of collective narcissism in predicting reactions specific to intergroup context (Golec de Zavala et al, 2009.…”

“…Although men experience discrimination less often than women (Manzi, 2019), they are likely to feel distress at the exclusion of other men and also experience it as social identity threat. Members of advantaged groups experience distress even when their ingroup is momentarily excluded in an abstract game of tossing a virtual ball (Golec de Hase et al, 2021). Moreover, while members of disadvantaged groups (like women) are distressed by reminders of their ingroup's exclusion (McCarty et al, 2022), members of advantaged groups (like men) feel distressed at the prospect of their ingroup's exclusion (Scheepers, 2009).…”

“…Collective narcissism is an aspect of ingroup identification that pertains to positive evaluations of the ingroup (Golec de Zavala et al, 2009. However, unlike nonnarcissistic positive regard for the ingroup (e.g., private collective self-esteem, Crocker & Luhtanen, 1990;ingroup satisfaction, Leach et al, 2008;positive ingroup regard, Brewer, 2011), collective narcissism is chronically associated with exaggerated perceptions of intergroup threat, conflict, and injustice against the ingroup, regardless of the ingroup's actual situation (Bagci et al, 2021;Golec de Zavala et al, 2016Guerra et al, 2022;Hase et al, 2021).…”

“…In Study 1, I designed the experimental manipulation around those events. In Study 2 and 3, I used Cyberball-a controlled, context-free, and internally valid paradigm-to manipulate interpersonal (Hartgerink et al, 2015) and intergroup exclusion (Golec de Hase et al, 2021).…”

The Link Between Religiosity and National Identity in Contemporary Poland: Extended Prosociality or Collective Narcissism?

“…Those who score high on collective narcissism are overly sensitive to slights-whether real or perceived-to the exaggerated image of the national ingroup that they hold. In this vein, those high in collective narcissism are especially likely to react to perceived criticism or insults directed at the ingroup with Collective narcissism and religiosity -7 hostility and retaliation (Golec de Zavala et al, 2009;Golec de Zavala, Cichocka, & Iskra-Golec 2013;Golec de Zavala, Pekker, Guerra, & Baran 2016;Hase et al, 2021;Jasko et al, 2019; see also Cichocka & Cislak, 2020;.…”