Narcissism and perspective taking: The mediating effect of need for control

Lee, Eunsoon; Kang, Hyoung-Kil

doi:10.2224/sbp.9333

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“…Additionally, narcissism has also been associated with a greater desire to maintain control, which in turn negatively influences perspective-taking (Lee & Kang, 2020). These findings are consistent with current theory (e.g., Ronningstam, 2009) suggesting that the ability for narcissistic individuals to empathize is situational and dependent on opportunities to avoid narcissistic injury and strengthen feelings of superiority.…”

Section: Empathic Functioningsupporting

confidence: 83%

Differences in Socio-Cognitive Processes among Individuals Exhibiting Characteristics of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism: A Multimethod Approach

Sanders

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This study explored how well specific socio-cognitive processes (i.e., interpersonal problems, empathy, hostile attributional biases, envy/jealousy) predicted the manifestations of both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Additionally, we explored the impact of both forms of narcissism on the presence of maladaptive social behaviors (i.e., the perpetration of psychological abuse). We found that domineering interpersonal behaviors and a propensity to fantasize predicted significant unique variance in grandiose narcissism; envy of others, hostile attributional biases, and a propensity to fantasize predicted significant unique variance in vulnerable narcissism. Additionally, while domineering interpersonal behaviors and hostile attributional biases predicted significant variance in psychological abuse perpetration, only vulnerable narcissism added significant unique variance to its regression model. Lastly, only domineering interpersonal behaviors, envy of others, and hostile attributional biases predicted significant unique variance in psychological abuse victimization; narcissism was nonsignificant. The results of our study will contribute to an increased understanding of the nature of both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism and the impacts these personality styles have on an individual's ability to function effectively in interpersonal relationships.

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Section: Empathic Functioningsupporting

confidence: 83%

Differences in Socio-Cognitive Processes among Individuals Exhibiting Characteristics of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism: A Multimethod Approach

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“…(2011) found a similar contradiction: the NPD vs. control group showed signi cant impairments in emotional empathy on the MET but not on other measures of emotional empathy such as the IRI empathic concern subscale (19). These mixed results are consistent with more recent ndings from Lee and Kang (21) in a non-clinical sample.…”

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“…Empathy with added cognitive processing can turn into sympathy (a form of mentalizing), personal distress, or a combination of the two (37). It seems that the lack of empathy of narcissists that have been reported in the literature (18,20,21,38) is not due to narcissists' inability to adopt others' perspectives. Indeed, people high in Narcissism have a motivation-based impairment in their cognitive empathic functioning, like what is seen in psychopathy (11,39).…”

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confidence: 99%

Level-1 Visual Perspective Taking Performance in People with High Narcissistic Traits

Ebrahimian

Mattan²,

Rezaei

2021

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Background: Lack of empathy is one of the main characteristics of narcissists. However, it is not clear whether there is a similar deficit in other facets of mentalizing, such as perspective-taking.Method: In this study, we measured the taking visual perspectives ascribed to different targets (e.g., first-person self, third-person self-avatar, and third-person stranger avatar). Our study focused on separate groups of individuals with high and low self-reported narcissistic traits. Results: Participants reporting high Narcissism scores showed higher accuracy in a third-person perspective-taking task than did their low-Narcissism counterparts. However, when the first-person perspective was incongruent with the third-person (first person vs. self- tagged avatar), the accuracy of their responses decreased.Conclusions: The discrepancy between the two types of perspective taking of people with high narcissism can probably mean that the narcissistic people perfectly identify / empathize with one object (person, avatar, character, etc.) and therefore their perspective-taking is disrupted when they need to identify with more than one object that represent their self-attributed perspectives.

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“…Additionally, our study supports the idea that maladaptive aspects of narcissism, and perhaps those closely associated with grandiose narcissism, may hamper the accuracy of “mind reading” as suggested by emotion identification results ( Hart et al, 2018 ). These disparities can be attributed not only to deficiencies but also to motivational factors in high narcissistic individuals ( Baskin-Sommers et al, 2014 ; Hepper et al, 2014b ; Lee and Kang, 2020 ), making it challenging to distinguish between the two.…”

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I understand your pain but I do not feel it: lower affective empathy in response to others’ social pain in narcissism

Shahri,

Zabihzadeh,

Taqipanahi

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionWhile the relationship between narcissism and empathy has been well-researched, studies have paid less attention to empathic accuracy, i.e., appreciating the precise strength of another person’s emotions, and self-other distinction, in terms of the disparity between affective ratings for self and other in response to emotive stimuli. Furthermore, empathic responses may vary depending on whether the pain is physical or social.MethodsWe investigated empathic accuracy, affective empathy, and the distinction between pain, emotion and intensity ratings for self and other, in high (n = 44) and low (n = 43) narcissism groups (HNG and LNG, respectively) selected from 611 students, in response to both types of pain. Participants watched six videos where targets expressed genuine experiences of physical and social pain, and rated the perceived affect and pain experienced by the person in the video and their own empathic emotional responses.Results and discussionThe HNG displayed lower affective empathy and empathic accuracy than the LNG for both pain types. Within the HNG there was higher empathic accuracy for social vs. physical pain, despite reduced affective empathy for social pain, in contrast to the LNG. In addition to this paradox, the HNG demonstrated greater differences between ratings for the self and for target others than the LNG, suggesting that narcissism is associated with higher self-other distinction in response to viewing other people describing social pain.

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Narcissism and perspective taking: The mediating effect of need for control

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Differences in Socio-Cognitive Processes among Individuals Exhibiting Characteristics of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism: A Multimethod Approach

Differences in Socio-Cognitive Processes among Individuals Exhibiting Characteristics of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism: A Multimethod Approach

Level-1 Visual Perspective Taking Performance in People with High Narcissistic Traits

I understand your pain but I do not feel it: lower affective empathy in response to others’ social pain in narcissism

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