The Measurement of Trait Narcissism in Social‐Personality Research

Tamborski, Michael; Brown, Ryan P.

doi:10.1002/9781118093108.ch11

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“…These results were not moderated by initial levels of narcissism (and thus reflect the pattern in Figure ). In one study, moreover, we observed significant reductions in separate measures of grandiosity (Rosenthal, Hooley, & Steshenko, ) and entitlement (Campbell, Bonacci, Shelton, Exline, & Bushman, ) – additional core facets of narcissism (Tamborski & Brown, ) – in the interdependent prime condition.…”

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Let Go of Your (Inflated) Ego: Caring more about Others Reduces Narcissistic Tendencies

Jordan

Giacomin

Kopp

2014

Social & Personality Psych

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Narcissists are known for having excessively positive self-views, but an equally defining characteristic of narcissism may be a disregard of other people. Could encouraging people to care more about others, or feel more connected to them, reduce narcissism? We describe a series of studies demonstrating that a more communal focus on others reduces narcissistic tendencies. In particular, repeating communal selfstatements (i.e., "I am a caring person"), recalling a time when one was caring, feeling empathy, focusing on monetary expenditures (which increases a sense of dependence on others), and interdependent selfconstrual all situationally reduce narcissism. These effects occur on a small scale but are significant because they establish that communal focus causes changes in narcissism. They also suggest that narcissism may have a state-like or context-dependent component, fluctuating across time and situations. Everyone may have the propensity to be narcissistic, but caring more about others may help to curb narcissism.Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc., was a great innovator and widely influential. He was also likely narcissistic (Henriques, 2012;Nadler, 2012;Thompson, 2011). He was noted for being manipulative, arrogant, self-absorbed, and pre-occupied with his own sense of importance and brilliance. Professional golfer Tiger Woods might also be narcissistic (Cosico, 2010). He has similarly been described as self-absorbed, arrogant, and obsessed with admiration, power, and attention. In addition to such grandiosity and self-absorption, Jobs and Woods may be notable for their ill-treatment of others. Despite being one of the world's wealthiest people, Jobs was criticized for his lack of charity. He insisted that he could do more good putting money into his own company, Apple Inc., than by donating to charitable organizations. He was also known for bullying employees and lacking compassion. Tiger Woods had multiple extra-marital affairs and described his sexual conquests as motivated by power and the excitement of using women as sex objects. As these examples illustrate, although narcissists are known for having excessively positive self-views, an equally defining characteristic of narcissism may be a disregard of other people. In this article, we explore this aspect of narcissism and the possibility that encouraging people to care more about others, or to feel more connected to them, can reduce narcissistic tendencies. Narcissism and Lack of Concern for Others

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Section: Interdependent Self‐construalmentioning

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Let Go of Your (Inflated) Ego: Caring more about Others Reduces Narcissistic Tendencies

Jordan

Giacomin

Kopp

2014

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Previous research has already suggested such a dissociation using the NPI subscales (Antes et al, 2007; Hickman et al, 1996). However, these subscales suffer from unacceptably low internal reliabilities, questionable item content, and ambiguity regarding the most appropriate number of subscales (Tamborski & Brown, 2012). Furthermore, none of the aforementioned studies investigated whether E/E might interact with the remaining subscales.…”

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Self-serving bias or simply serving the self? Evidence for a dimensional approach to narcissism

Tamborski

Brown

Chowning

2012

Personality and Individual Differences

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Previous research has suggested that narcissism can be conceptualized as a multidimensional construct consisting of the related, but unique, dimensions of grandiosity and entitlement. The current studies examined the divergent associations of grandiosity and entitlement with respect to different types of self-serving strategies. In Study 1, we found that narcissistic grandiosity, but not entitlement, was positively associated with a self-enhancing strategy of unrealistic optimism. This association was not mediated by self-esteem. In Study 2, narcissistic entitlement, but not grandiosity, was predictive of unethical decision-making, an interpersonal self-promotional strategy that advances the self at the expense of others. Together, both studies support a model of narcissism consisting of a relatively intrapersonal dimension of grandiosity and a relatively interpersonal dimension of entitlement.

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“…Most importantly, it allowed us to investigate processes immediately after stimulus onset. Thus, this approach provided insights into rather automatic responses that are difficult or impossible to detect with other methods often applied in the research on narcissism, such as self-report (Tamborski & Brown, 2011 ), clinical observations (Afek, 2018 ) or fMRI (Jauk et al, 2017 ). Specifically, the current study used two well-studied components of the ERP associated with face processing: P1 and N170.…”

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Face Perception and Narcissism: Variations of Event-Related Potential Components (P1 & N170) with Admiration and Rivalry

Mück

Ohmann

Dummel

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Previous studies have demonstrated that highly narcissistic individuals perceive themselves as grandiose and devaluate and sometimes overvalue others. These results are mainly based on behavioural data, but we still know little about the neural correlates underlying, such as perceptional processes. To this end, we investigated event-related potential components (ERP) of visual face processing (P1 and N170) and their variations with narcissism. Participants (N = 59) completed the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire and were shown pictures of their own face, a celebrity’s face, and a stranger’s face. Variations of P1 and N170 with Admiration and Rivalry were analysed using multilevel models. Results revealed moderating effects of both narcissism dimensions on the ERP components of interest. Participants with either high Admiration or low Rivalry scores showed a lower P1 amplitude when viewing their own face compared with when viewing a celebrity’s face. Moreover, the Self-Stranger difference in the N170 component (higher N170 amplitude in the Self condition) was larger for higher Rivalry scores. The findings showed, for the first time, variations of both narcissism dimensions with ERPs of early face processing. We related these effects to processes of attentional selection, an expectancy-driven perception, and the mobilisation of defensive systems. The results demonstrated that by linking self-report instruments to P1 and N170, and possibly to other ERP components, we might better understand self- and other-perception in narcissism.

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The Measurement of Trait Narcissism in Social‐Personality Research

Cited by 27 publications

References 42 publications

Let Go of Your (Inflated) Ego: Caring more about Others Reduces Narcissistic Tendencies

Let Go of Your (Inflated) Ego: Caring more about Others Reduces Narcissistic Tendencies

Self-serving bias or simply serving the self? Evidence for a dimensional approach to narcissism

Face Perception and Narcissism: Variations of Event-Related Potential Components (P1 & N170) with Admiration and Rivalry

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