Narcissism and Prosocial Behavior

Konrath, Sara; Tian, Yuan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92171-6_40

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“…Second, analyses including individual narcissism indicated that the relationships between collective narcissism and in-group satisfaction and COVID-19 solidarity were unchanged once individual feelings of exaggerated excellence and entitlement were accounted for. It is especially noteworthy that negative relationship between collective narcissism and solidarity was robust to the inclusion of individual narcissism in the models, given that the latter is a negative predictor of prosocial behavior in interpersonal contexts (Konrath & Tian, 2018). This suggests that the negative implications of collective narcissism for solidarity cannot be explained by the correlation between collective and individual narcissism.…”

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confidence: 91%

Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19

Federico

Zavala

Baran

2020

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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The present study explored the antecedents of solidarity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that solidarity during mass emergencies involves the development of a social identity encompassing those facing a common fate, we examined how national in-group satisfaction (IS, a belief that the national in-group and one’s membership in it are of high value) versus national collective narcissism (CN, a belief that the national in-group is exceptional and entitled to privileged treatment but not sufficiently recognized by others) predicted solidarity with those affected by the pandemic in Poland. The results of cross-sectional and dynamic analyses from a panel study on a representative sample of Polish adults indicate that IS predicted greater COVID-19 solidarity, whereas CN predicted reduced COVID-19 solidarity.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19

Federico

Zavala

Baran

2020

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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“…We included these scales as controls, since we reasoned that it is likely that generosity is positively associated with open-mindedness and negatively associated with narcissism. Indeed, previous research has found that intellectual humility, which is closely related to open-mindedness (Alfano et al, 2017), is associated with altruism (Krumrei-Mancuso, 2017), and that narcissists tend to act prosocially for strategic reasons (Konrath et al, 2016;Konrath & Tian, 2018)--reasons that are not present in our anonymous measure of generosity. Finally, since there is evidence that women and older people are more generous than men and younger people in one-shot anonymous dictator games (Branas-Garza et al, 2018;Engel, 2011;Rand et al, 2016), we also included gender and age as controls.…”

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“…We also planned to test the robustness of the association between conspiracy beliefs and generosity by controlling for measures that are likely to be related to generosity and available in the analyzed dataset: Measures that are related to moral preferences (moral circle, moral identity, cooperative moral values), open-mindedness (Alfano et al, 2017;Krumrei-Mancuso, 2017), narcissism (Konrath et al, 2016;Konrath & Tian, 2018), sex and age (Engel, 2011;Rand et al, 2016;Branas-Garza et al, 2018) were considered as controls (see the Method for details about how these are linked to generosity). The hypotheses and analysis plan were pre-registered prior to being granted access to the data (https://aspredicted.org/blind.php?x=vd54g5).…”

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How Are Conspiracy Beliefs Associated with Generosity?

Alper¹,

Douglas²,

Capraro³

2021

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Previous research has demonstrated that higher levels of belief in conspiracy theories are related to higher levels of distrust toward others, greater antisocial tendencies, and more self-centeredness. These findings suggest that conspiracy believers may also be less likely to be generous. However, very little research has thus far investigated this possibility. In the current study, we examined the association between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and generosity across a sample of 45,073 participants from 52 countries. We found that participants with higher COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs were less likely to donate to national and international charities, and that this negative association was stronger for donations to national charities. Exploratory analyses revealed that the discrepancy between national and international charity donations was more salient in countries with high levels of corruption, suggesting that conspiracy believers might be more suspicious of ingroups, rather than outgroups, in more corrupt countries.

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“…Finally, narcissists might try to stand out through their acts. They might try to demonstrate their superior competences, for example, by showing off in the presence of potentially admiring bystanders (Buss & Chiodo, 1991), by striving to publicly succeed in challenging tasks (Wallace & Baumeister, 2002), or by publicly enacting altruistic behaviors, provided these behaviors increase status (Konrath, Ho, & Zarins, 2016; Konrath & Tian, 2018). While engaging in these self-promoting behaviors, narcissists may visibly experience a sense of pride, which outsiders may view as arrogance (Tracy, Cheng, Robins, & Trzesniewski, 2009).…”

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The “Why” and “How” of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit

Grapsas

Brummelman

Back

et al. 2019

Perspect Psychol Sci

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We propose a self-regulation model of grandiose narcissism. This model illustrates an interconnected set of processes through which narcissists (i.e., individuals with relatively high levels of grandiose narcissism) pursue social status in their moment-by-moment transactions with their environments. The model shows that narcissists select situations that afford status. Narcissists vigilantly attend to cues related to the status they and others have in these situations and, on the basis of these perceived cues, appraise whether they can elevate their status or reduce the status of others. Narcissists engage in self-promotion (admiration pathway) or other-derogation (rivalry pathway) in accordance with these appraisals. Each pathway has unique consequences for how narcissists are perceived by others, thus shaping their social status over time. The model demonstrates how narcissism manifests itself as a stable and consistent cluster of behaviors in pursuit of social status and how it develops and maintains itself over time. More broadly, the model might offer useful insights for future process models of other personality traits.

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Narcissism and Prosocial Behavior

Cited by 19 publications

References 42 publications

Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19

Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19

How Are Conspiracy Beliefs Associated with Generosity?

The “Why” and “How” of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit

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