What Do Narcissists Know About Themselves? Exploring the Bright Spots and Blind Spots of Narcissists’ Self-Knowledge

Carlson, Erika N.; Khafagy, Reem

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92171-6_29

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“…In its extreme form narcissism is a personality disorder, which is often only diagnosed when the individual seeks help for comorbidities such as depression or anxiety disorders ( Caligor, Levy, & Yeomans, 2015 ). When narcissistic individuals are aware of their narcissistic tendencies, they see it as helping them ‘get ahead’, instead of as problematic ( Carlson & Khafagy, 2018 ). Official diagnoses of pathological narcissism are thus relatively rare, but it has been suggested that narcissistic traits have become widespread in our modern society that values assertiveness, self-esteem, agency, and extraversion ( Twenge, Konrath, Foster, Keith Campbell, & Bushman, 2008 ; Santos, Varnum, & Grossmann, 2017 ; cf.…”

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Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and narcissistic traits

Venema

Pfattheicher

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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People's perceived susceptibility to illnesses plays a key role in determining whether or not to take protective measures. However, self-enhancing biases hinder accurate susceptibility perceptions, leaving some individuals to feel invulnerable in the face of acute health risks. Since such biases are prominent characteristics of individuals with narcissistic personality traits, this article empirically examined whether low perceived susceptibility of infection with COVID-19 is related to subclinical narcissism, as measured with the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI-16) and the Narcissism Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ). We report the findings from a worldwide sample ( N = 244), a UK sample before governmental pandemic restrictions ( N = 261), a UK sample after restrictions ( N = 261) and a pooled data analysis ( N = 766). Overall, grandiose narcissism as measured with the NPI-16 predicted lower perceived susceptibility of infection, also after controlling for age and gender, whereas the NARQ Admiration subscale predicted higher perceived susceptibility. The findings are discussed in the light of theoretical and policy implications.

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Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and narcissistic traits

Venema

Pfattheicher

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…For phenomenological wisdom, one possible explanation of the nonsignificant correlation may be that although narcissism may decrease the endorsement of communal items in self-report wisdom measures, it may enhance the endorsement of agentic items. This is because narcissists have been shown to have overly positive perceptions of their agentic traits (e.g., intelligence, creativity, adjustment) but have accurate perceptions of their low levels of communal traits (e.g., care, compassion, and morality; Carlson & Khafagy, 2018 ). The lack of significant correlation with performative wisdom is hard to explain because performative wisdom measures are unlikely to have been strongly affected by self-enhancement.…”

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Thirty Years of Psychological Wisdom Research: What We Know About the Correlates of an Ancient Concept

Dong

Weststrate²,

Fournier

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Psychologists have studied the ancient concept of wisdom for 3 decades. Nevertheless, apparent discrepancies in theories and empirical findings have left the nomological network of the construct unclear. Using multilevel meta-analyses, we summarized wisdom’s correlations with age, intelligence, the Big Five personality traits, narcissism, self-esteem, social desirability, and well-being. We furthermore examined whether these correlations were moderated by the general approach to conceptualizing and measuring wisdom (i.e., phenomenological wisdom as indexed by self-report vs. performative wisdom as indexed by performance ratings), by specific wisdom measures, and by variable-specific factors (e.g., age range, type of intelligence measures, and well-being type). Although phenomenological and performative approaches to conceptualizing and measuring wisdom had some unique correlates, both were correlated with openness, hedonic well-being, and eudaimonic well-being, especially the growth aspect of eudaimonic well-being. Differences between phenomenological and performative wisdom are discussed in terms of the differences between typical and maximal performance, self-ratings and observer ratings, and global and state wisdom. This article will help move the scientific study of wisdom forward by elucidating reliable wisdom correlates and by offering concrete suggestions for future empirical research based on the meta-analytic findings.

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“…Hence, increased drive for thinness in narcissistic women might be a consequence of their bias toward, fear of, and need to reduce criticism. On the contrary, agentic narcissists' perception and attention processes are much less directed toward negative feedback; they "automatically inhibit threatening information" ( [45], p. 6) and orient themselves more toward cues that support and correspond to their grandiose self-view (see also [95,96]).…”

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Disentangling the contributions of agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic narcissism to drive for thinness and drive for muscularity

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Body image concerns revolving around body ideals (thin ideal, muscular ideal) are widespread among women. Whereas a stronger preoccupation with ideal physical appearance is often assumed for narcissistic women, previous empirical findings have been mixed. Following a tripartite structure of agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic narcissism facets, we reexamined whether trait narcissism predicted drive for thinness and drive for muscularity. We further explored the role of importance of appearance as a mediator and moderator of the relation between narcissism and body image concerns. Latent structural equation modeling was applied to self-report data from two independent nonclinical female samples (NSample1 = 224, NSample2 = 342). Results underlined the importance of distinguishing between narcissism facets: Neurotic (but not agentic or antagonistic) narcissism uniquely predicted drive for thinness and drive for muscularity. Importance of appearance mediated but did not robustly moderate these relations. Hence, neurotic narcissistic women (characterized by hypersensitivity, shame, and a fragile self-esteem) are particularly prone to body image concerns. This vulnerability seems partly driven by how much importance they ascribe to their appearance. Future work might build on these insights to further unravel the processes linking neurotic narcissism to body image concerns and how these can be targeted in practical interventions.

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What Do Narcissists Know About Themselves? Exploring the Bright Spots and Blind Spots of Narcissists’ Self-Knowledge

Cited by 5 publications

References 50 publications

Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and narcissistic traits

Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and narcissistic traits

Thirty Years of Psychological Wisdom Research: What We Know About the Correlates of an Ancient Concept

Disentangling the contributions of agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic narcissism to drive for thinness and drive for muscularity

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