Induced narcissism increases self-assessed intelligence: implications for academic goal-pursuit, expected academic achievement, and psychological well-being

Zajenkowski, Marcin; Sedikides, Constantine; Gignac, Gilles E.; Górniak, Jeremiasz; Maciantowicz, Oliwia

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104311

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“…Both adolescent superiority and self‐absorption were positively linked to prosocial behavior, and superiority was negatively linked to externalizing behavior. Results regarding adolescent superiority are consistent with findings indicating positive associations between grandiose narcissism and some forms of prosocial behavior (Kauten & Barry, 2016; Konrath & Tian, 2018) as well as grandiose narcissism and academic achievement (Papageorgiou et al, 2018; Zajenkowski et al, 2022). Self‐absorption, which would typically be subsumed within vulnerable narcissism (Truhan, Wilson, et al, 2021), may function as a socially adaptive trait regarding prosocial behavior.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…From an evolutionary perspective, these traits may be considered socially adaptive or maladaptive in a variety of ways. For example, narcissism has been linked with some forms of prosocial behavior (Kauten & Barry, 2016;Konrath & Tian, 2018) and with academic achievement (Papageorgiou et al, 2018;Zajenkowski et al, 2022), which are considered socially desirable outcomes (Hawley, 2014;Sedikides & Campbell, 2017). Also, psychopathy may be considered socially adaptive as it has been linked with reproductively relevant traits (Tielbeek et al, 2018) and, occasionally with career and social success strategies (Book et al, 2015), although this has been disputed in more recent literature (Eisenbarth et al, 2018(Eisenbarth et al, , 2022.…”

Section: Adolescent Personality Perceived Parenting and Behavioral Ou...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A tri‐directional examination of adolescent personality, perceived parenting, and economic and parental adversity contexts in influencing adolescent behavioral outcomes

Truhan

Sedikides

Armour

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Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionAdolescent personality is consistently linked to behavioral strengths and difficulties. However, most of this work is limited in that it does not consider personality beyond the Big Five or economic or parental adversity contexts. The Tri‐Directional Framework of Parent and Offspring Traits and Outcomes highlights the collective influence of personality, parenting, and context on offspring behavioral outcomes.MethodsParent and adolescent cross‐sectional data were collected from 2019 to 2021 as part of the Parents and Children Together project in the United Kingdom. Adolescents (N = 310, 48.7% female) self‐reported on Dark Triad traits, parenting, and behavior. Parents (N = 288, 46.9% mothers) self‐reported on socioeconomic status and adverse childhood experiences. In two path analysis models, we examined: (1) adolescent Dark Triad, context, and their interactions as predictors of perceived maternal and paternal warmth, hostility, and control; and (2) adolescent Dark Triad, perceived parenting, context, and personality‐parenting interactions as predictors of adolescent behavioral strengths and difficulties.ResultsAdolescent narcissistic traits were the strongest predictors of perceived maternal parenting, whereas adolescent psychopathy and Machiavellianism were the strongest predictors of perceived paternal parenting. Adolescent personality interacted with contextual factors in predicting parenting, but not with perceived parenting in predicting behavior.ConclusionAdolescent Dark Triad traits, especially narcissism, and contextual factors are important for the parent‐offspring relationship and developmental outcomes. We recommend that research move beyond assessing direct trait‐outcome associations to examining how these associations operate in different environments.

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A tri‐directional examination of adolescent personality, perceived parenting, and economic and parental adversity contexts in influencing adolescent behavioral outcomes

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Armour

et al. 2023

Journal of Adolescence

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“…. This was congruent with results supporting that recalling autobiographical memory when participants felt agentically narcissistic increased the level of SAI and that positive feedback on intelligence increased the level of agentic narcissism (Zajenkowski et al, 2022;. We found that feeling more intelligent does not necessarily evoke agentically narcissistic feelings; however, feeling agentically narcissistic predicts feeling more intelligent on the next day (Mielke et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 87%

I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence

Rogoza,

Zajenkowski,

Di Sarno

et al. 2023

Eur J Pers

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While the objective level of intelligence is not associated with narcissism, relations to self-assessed intelligence (SAI) have been repeatedly reported. Existing research suggests that different facets of narcissism may have different associations with SAI. In the current daily diary study ( N = 176; N = 3975 total observations), we employed dynamic structural equation modeling to examine the relationships between facets of trait and state narcissism (i.e., agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic) and the level, variability, and instability of SAI assessed over 28 consecutive days. Both trait and state narcissism were consistently related to SAI: agentic narcissism showed a positive relationship, whereas antagonistic and neurotic narcissism showed negative relationships with SAI. Trait agentic and state antagonistic narcissism predicted greater variability of SAI scores throughout the study, while neither trait nor state narcissism predicted the instability of SAI. Finally, we found that experiencing increased agentic narcissism on one day, predicted perceiving oneself as more intelligent on the next day, but feeling smarter did not predict feeling narcissistic over time. Moreover, we demonstrated that differentiating between narcissism facets yielded more theoretically accurate results compared to distinguishing between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism.

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“…Therefore, when firms are confident that their shares are being priced lower by the market, it is logical for them to announce their disagreement through a repurchase plan (Isa & Lee, 2014). The psychology literature finds narcissist individuals to have inflated self‐images and overestimated self‐intelligence (Zajenkowski et al., 2022). These inflated abilities make narcissistic CEOs value their firm more optimistically and they are more likely to perceive their firm's share as underpriced when they are not.…”

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“…Based on the market timing motivation, we hypothesize that there is a positive relationship between CEO narcissism and the announcement of share repurchases. We base our argument on the unrealistically inflated self‐image and overestimated self‐intelligence narcissist CEOs (Zajenkowski et al., 2022). The inflated views of their own abilities make narcissistic CEOs more likely to perceive their firm's share more underpriced.…”

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The beguiling behaviour of narcissistic CEOs: Evidence from repurchase announcements

Boamah,

Banerjee

2024

Business Fin & Account

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We study whether Chief Executive Officer (CEO) narcissism affects a firm's share repurchase announcements and their implementations. Using signature characteristics as a measure of narcissism, we find that US firms with narcissist CEOs are more likely to make repurchase announcements and announce higher repurchase dollar amounts. However, these firms are less likely to follow through. Actual repurchases by these firms are less frequent, and they use a smaller amount of cash for share buyback because they have a higher cashflow sensitivity of cash. Narcissist CEOs’ repurchase announcements are less driven by market timing and have a lower announcement effect compared to those by other CEOs. The higher rate and amount of repurchase announcements are more pronounced in poorly governed firms with narcissistic CEOs. These results are robust to various specifications including a difference‐in‐difference set‐up using CEOs’ exogenous turnover, controlling for other CEO traits and using an alternative measure of narcissism based on pronoun usage in CEO communications. Collectively, the results presented in this study demonstrate that narcissist CEOs play a critical role in the intensity of share repurchase announcements and their executions, particularly for firms with weaker governance structures.

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Induced narcissism increases self-assessed intelligence: implications for academic goal-pursuit, expected academic achievement, and psychological well-being

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

A tri‐directional examination of adolescent personality, perceived parenting, and economic and parental adversity contexts in influencing adolescent behavioral outcomes

A tri‐directional examination of adolescent personality, perceived parenting, and economic and parental adversity contexts in influencing adolescent behavioral outcomes

I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence

The beguiling behaviour of narcissistic CEOs: Evidence from repurchase announcements

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