Undergraduates (n = 156) completed measures of aggression, self-esteem, and narcissism. In accord with previous research, self-esteem and narcissism had opposing effects on aggression and functioned as mutual suppressors: Controlling their shared variance amplified self-esteem’s negative association with aggression and narcissism’s positive association with aggression. Participants also rated t...

The aim of this study was to determine the potential relationship among borderline personality disorder traits, specific aspects of narcissism, and different elements of eating pathology. Fifty-two nonclinical female participants completed standardized measures of narcissism, borderline personality disorder traits, and eating pathology. Data were analyzed using correlations. Specific associatio...

Exposure to maltreatment during childhood (physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, physical or emotional neglect) is associated with increased risk for narcissistic personality pathology (Lobbestael, Arntz, and Bernstein 2010), although studies examining this relationship have looked primarily at DSM-IV criteria for narcissistic personality disorder rather than narcissistic character styles. Yet ...

An online survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. men aged 18–40 assessed trait predictors of social networking site use as well as two forms of visual self-presentation: editing one’s image in photographs posted on social networking sites (SNSs) and posting ‘‘selfies,’’ or pictures users take of themselves. We examined the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psycho...

According to one hypothesis, self-report measures of narcissism help describe a psychological continuum related to self-esteem. Most of the previous support for this idea appeared in studies of undergraduates responding to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Hall, 1981) along with other self-report instruments. In this project, results consistent with the continuum hypothesis ...

The current study sought to examine the relationships between two facets of narcissism (vulnerable and grandiose) and eating disorder symptoms. Based upon previous research (Davis, Claridge, & Cerullo, 1997), it was predicted that the vulnerable narcissism facet would be more strongly associated with eating disorder symptoms because of the tendency for vulnerable narcissists to base their self-...

The present research examined how narcissism is manifested on a social networking Web site (i.e., Facebook.com). Narcissistic personality self-reports were collected from social networking Web page owners. Then their Web pages were coded for both objective and subjective content features. Finally, strangers viewed the Web pages and rated their impression of the owner on agentic traits, communal...

Despite the widely held belief that men are more narcissistic than women, there has been no systematic review to establish the magnitude, variability across measures and settings, and stability over time of this gender difference. Drawing on the biosocial approach to social role theory, a meta-analysis performed for Study 1 found that men tended to be more narcissistic than women (d = .26; k = ...

Objective: This study sought to examine the relationship between pathological narcissism and mental state decoding abilities. Methods: 145 undergraduate students participated in a laboratory experiment for course credit. Narcissism was assessed with the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) and mental state decoding abilities were assessed with the Reading the Mind in the Eyes (RME) task. Pro...