On the Popularity of Agentic and Communal Narcissists: The Tit-for-Tat Hypothesis

Rentzsch, Katrin; Gebauer, Jochen E.

doi:10.1177/0146167218824359

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“…In the present research, we identify distinct situational perceptions as mediators of the association between relationship satisfaction and agentic and antagonistic facets of grandiose narcissism. There are, however, several other attempts to parse the narcissistic personality construct (e.g., Crowe et al, 2019; Krizan & Herlache, 2018; Rogoza et al, 2019; Rose, 2002; Wright & Edershile, 2018), and we would like to encourage researchers to investigate communal aspects of grandiose narcissism characterized by overly positive self-views regarding one’s own communion (e.g., morality, prosociality, and interpersonal aptitude; Gebauer et al, 2012; Rentzsch & Gebauer, 2019) or vulnerable forms of narcissism such as hypersensitive narcissism, pathological narcissism, and narcissistic personality disorder (Miller et al, 2018). Furthermore, our focus was on romantic relationships in Western societies.…”

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Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples

Rentzsch

Wieczorek

Gerlach

2021

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Research has shown that diverging romantic relationship outcomes of grandiose narcissism can be explained by differential associations of agentic and antagonistic aspects of narcissism. In this study, we wanted to further investigate the underlying mechanisms by examining how narcissists perceive daily situations with their partners. In an online diary, 171 couples reported on 1941 daily situations experienced together. Analyses revealed that agentic narcissism was positively and antagonistic narcissism was negatively related to daily relationship satisfaction. These effects were differentially linked through distinct situation perceptions: Agentic narcissism was positively linked with relationship satisfaction through perceiving daily situations as, for example, containing more romance, sexuality, and love, while antagonistic narcissism was negatively linked with relationship satisfaction through perceiving, for example, more threat, criticism, and accusation. Results are discussed in light of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept and with respect to person–situation transactions in romantic relationships.

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Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples

Rentzsch

Wieczorek

Gerlach

2021

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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“…Self-reported communal narcissism has been linked to higher arrogance and self-esteem (Gebauer et al, 2012 ; Zemojtel-Piotrowska et al, 2017 ). Consequently, communal narcissists might be perceived as arrogant show-offs by others as well, and thus, as less likable (Rentzsch and Gebauer, 2019 ).…”

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Too Good to be Liked? When and How Prosocial Others are Disliked

2021

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Outstandingly prosocial individuals may not always be valued and admired, but sometimes depreciated and rejected. While prior research has mainly focused on devaluation of highly competent or successful individuals, comparable research in the domain of prosociality is scarce. The present research suggests two mechanisms why devaluation of extreme prosocial individuals may occur: they may (a) constitute very high comparison standards for observers, and may (b) be perceived as communal narcissists. Two experiments test these assumptions. We confronted participants with an extreme prosocial or an ordinary control target and manipulated comparative aspects of the situation (salient vs. non-salient comparison, Experiment 1), and narcissistic aspects of the target (showing off vs. being modest, Experiment 2). Consistent with our assumptions, the extreme prosocial target was liked less than the control target, and even more so when the comparison situation was salient (Experiment 1), and when the target showed off with her good deeds (Experiment 2). Implications that prosociality does not always breed more liking are discussed.

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“…Usually, at least in regard to narcissism, researchers are interested in its effects on being liked and popular (Czarna et al, 2016; Leckelt et al, 2019; Rentzsch & Gebauer, 2019). However, we believe this reflects only one side of the coin as it regards communal‐based relations, while nothing is known about agency‐based relations, which are qualitatively different (Abele & Wojciszke, 2007).…”

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Making and maintaining relationships through the prism of the dark triad traits: A longitudinal social network study

Rogoza

Danieluk

Kowalski

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Journal of Personality

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Objective We investigated how Dark Triad traits influence the development and maintenance of social relations. Method Participants completed the Short Dark Triad questionnaire and a measure of social relations at three time points: at the beginning of their first year in high school, 3 months later, and at the end of their first year. We investigated whether the Dark Triad traits are stable over time using Multilevel Modeling (N = 265; 59.6% girls), and how Dark Triad traits predict incoming and outgoing agentic and communal relations using Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (N = 192; 60.4% girls). Results Overall, the Dark Triad traits were stable over a one‐year period. Narcissism did not predict an increase in communal and agentic relations in the short‐term, but predicted slightly less incoming communal and more agentic relations in the long‐term. In the short‐term, Machiavellianism predicted a small increase while psychopathy predicted a small decrease in the incoming agentic and communal relations. In the long‐term, however, neither Machiavellianism nor psychopathy was a significant predictor of any incoming relations. Conclusions Our results shed new light on the dynamics of making and maintaining social relations through the prism of the Dark Triad traits.

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On the Popularity of Agentic and Communal Narcissists: The Tit-for-Tat Hypothesis

Cited by 25 publications

References 76 publications

Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples

Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples

Too Good to be Liked? When and How Prosocial Others are Disliked

Making and maintaining relationships through the prism of the dark triad traits: A longitudinal social network study

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