Narcissism: its function in modulating self-conscious emotions.

Overv Alued and Ashamed: Consldering the Roles of Self-esteem and Self-conscious Emotions in Covert Narcissism

Identifying the Characteristics of Pathological Narcissism in a Sample of Public University Students of Tehran in 2019

Objectives: Pathological narcissism has broad phenotypical variations. The present study aimed to investigate the validity and characteristics of pathological narcissism in Iranian public university students. Methods: The present study is a descriptive research. This study was performed on 659 students in different degrees and fields in the academic year of 2018-2019, who were selected using c...

Moving beyond Parents in the Etiology of Narcissistic Traits

The core features of narcissism have been thoroughly discussed in the preceding chapters. What stands out from this discussion is the apparent importance of interpersonal processes in the development and maintenance of narcissism. The interpersonal nature of narcissism stands in sharp contrast to other conceptualizations of self, such as global feelings of self-esteem, that largely involve inte...

The regulatory function of self-conscious emotion: insights from patients with orbitofrontal damage.

Although once considered disruptive, self-conscious emotions are now theorized to be fundamentally involved in the regulation of social behavior. The present study examined the social regulation function of self-conscious emotions by comparing healthy participants with a neuropsychological population--patients with orbitofrontal lesions--characterized by selective regulatory deficits. Orbitofro...

COMMENTARIES What Is Unique About Self-Conscious Emotions?

In their target article, Tracy and Robins (this issue) offer a far-reaching and generative theory of self-conscious emotion. The central assertion is that the self-conscious emotions differ from other well-studied emotions, such as fear or anger, and their understanding requires concepts from the self literature. The focus of this commentary is to sharpen the discussion regarding the unique fac...