Department of Psychology 118C Haggar Hall University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Narcissism is a complex construct with a long history. Its theoretical source is attributed to Freud’s (1914) influential essay “On Narcissism,” and it has figured prominently ever since in the literatures of psychoanalysis, object relations, self-psychology, psychopatho...

The self-serving attributional bias in collaborative group efforts is the tendency for individuals to take more personal responsibility for the group’s success and less personal responsibility for the group’s failure. Much previous research has linked narcissism with self-serving behavior. Narcissism can be broken down into the grandiose subtype, characterized by superiority and entitlement, an...

Different patterns of emotional reactivity characterize proactive and reactive functions of aggressive behavior, and theory also suggests a link of both types with narcissism. How people with narcissistic traits respond emotionally to competitive scenarios could influence their aggressiveness. Participants were 85 adolescent boys from a detention center. Several indices of emotional functioning...

We examined the relationships between Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy-the three traits of the Dark Triad (DT)-and the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality. The review identified 310 independent samples drawn from 215 sources and yielded information pertaining to global trait relationships and facet-level relationships. We used meta-analysis to examine (a) the bivariate relations...

Narcissism, characterized by grandiose self-image and entitled feelings to others, has been increasingly prevalent in the past decades. This study examined genetic and environmental bases of two dimensions of narcissism: intrapersonal grandiosity and interpersonal entitlement. A total of 304 pairs of twins from Beijing, China completed the Narcissistic Grandiosity Scale and the Psychological En...

We present a process model that distinguishes 2 dimensions of narcissism: admiration and rivalry. We propose that narcissists' overarching goal of maintaining a grandiose self is pursued by 2 separate pathways, characterized by distinct cognitive, affective-motivational, and behavioral processes. In a set of 7 studies, we validated this 2-dimensional model using the newly developed Narcissistic...

• A bogus pipeline paradigm examined self-assessments of narcissism and self-esteem. • Grandiosity was higher if surveys might be seen than when monitored by a polygraph. • Self-esteem was higher if surveys might be seen than when connected to a polygraph. • Narcissism was positively correlated with self-esteem in all study conditions. • Findings contradict the psychodynamic mask model and the ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Much of the research in the last few years has linked the Dark Triad traits (narcissism, psychopathy, and Machi-avellianism) to negative outcomes. In a sample of Polish undergraduate students, we examined how the Dark Triad traits differ in their relationships with eudaimonic and hedonic well-being. Narcissism was positively related to both variants of well-being, and afte...

Due to increased empirical interest in narcissism across the social sciences, there is a need for inventories that can be administered quickly while also reliably measuring both the agentic and antagonistic aspects of grandiose narcissism. In this study, we sought to validate the factor structure, provide representative descriptive data and reliability estimates, assess the reliability across t...

A growing body of research supports the vulnerability model of low self-esteem and depression, which states that low self-esteem is a risk factor for depression. The goal of the present research was to refine the vulnerability model, by testing whether the self-esteem effect is truly due to a lack of genuine self-esteem or due to a lack of narcissistic self-enhancement. For the analyses, we use...