The Effects of Anticipated Negative Feedback on Psychological States Among Narcissists

Matsuo, Akiko; DeSouza, Eros

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“…At the same time, sport is a vehicle in which it is possible to reflect competence vs. incompetence in front of others [23], or to generate beliefs and emotional experiences that, in fact, produce dysfunctional responses and have an impact on the individual´s performance [24]. For example, fear of failure, mainly associated with negative self-assessments of one´s own capacities [25], or vulnerable narcissism [26], has been considered, from the neurocognitive point of view, as a stable tendency to anticipate shame and humiliation after failure.…”

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Why Negative or Positive, If It makes Me Win? Dark Personality in Spanish Competitive Athletes

González-Hernández

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Tovar-Gálvez

et al. 2020

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Research on the dark triad traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy) is increasingly focusing on the functional or dysfunctional influences of personality traits on cognitive, behavioural and emotional responses. Thus, studies in sport contexts have shown that athletes who participate in competitive sports have higher scores in the dark triad than those who do not. The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to evaluate the linear and predictive relationships between dark traits and competitiveness (p < 0.01), as well as to identify any differences based on sports orientation (professionals vs. amateurs). Scales SD3 (dark personality) and C−10 (competitiveness) were applied to a sample of Spanish athletes (n = 806). The results show that competitiveness is strongly related to the traits of the dark personality triad. Narcissism is related to both the desire to win and the fear of losing, while Machiavellian tendencies are high when athletes feel like losers. Finally, psychopathic tendencies are related to feelings of inferiority and fear of failure. In conclusion, the results suggest that dark personality traits are related not only to the individuality of the athletes, but also to the self-perception of both their psychological response and the competitiveness of their sporting environment.

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Why Negative or Positive, If It makes Me Win? Dark Personality in Spanish Competitive Athletes

González-Hernández

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“…For instance, in Bogart et al (2004), narcissism was found to be related to larger increases in positive affect after downward social comparisons and larger increases in hostile affect after upward social comparisons. Other studies in laboratory settings found effects of narcissism on affective reactions to success versus failure (Rhodewalt & Morf, 1998), insult (Bushman & Baumeister, 1998), and anticipated negative feedback (Matsuo & DeSouza, 2016). Supplementing such experiments with an assessment of subjective social status and specific ego-relevant emotions would provide the opportunity to investigate the effect of status cues on participants’ evaluations of their social status and contingent changes in affective states as proposed here.…”

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Narcissists’ affective well-being: Associations of grandiose narcissism with state affect level and variability.

Scharbert,

Dein,

Kroencke

et al. 2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Whereas grandiose narcissism has generally been found to be related to adaptive affective experiences (i.e., positive affective states), many theoretical conceptualizations have emphasized its associations with characteristics of low affective well-being (i.e., unstable, highly variable affective states). Empirical research on the association of grandiose narcissism with the mean level of and variability in affective states has been inconclusive, as studies have differed considerably in their conceptualizations and measurement of narcissism and affect dynamics and have suffered from methodological limitations. Here, we offer conceptual explanations for previously inconsistent findings, derive diverging hypotheses about different aspects of narcissism and affective well-being, and investigate these hypotheses in two daily diary and three experience-sampling data sets (overall N = 2,125; total measurements = 116,336). As hypothesized, we found diverging associations between agentic and antagonistic aspects of narcissism with affect levels: Whereas narcissistic admiration was related to more pleasant affective states, narcissistic rivalry was related to less pleasant ones. We also obtained some support for diverging effects of admiration and rivalry on affect variability. However, these associations were largely reduced when we corrected for (squared) mean levels of affective valence and arousal. In combination, these findings suggest that only the agentic aspect of grandiose narcissism is conducive to affective well-being, whereas its antagonistic aspect negatively influences affective well-being. Moreover, the assumed associations of grandiose narcissism with volatile affectivity seem to rely heavily on mean-level effects and primarily manifest in experiences of more diverse affective states rather than stronger or more frequent affective fluctuations in general.

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“…More recent research illustrates that negative feedback in the public domain elicits more aggression than private negative feedback (Ferriday et al, 2011). In line with the pattern of aggressive reactivity in grandiose narcissism, a few studies demonstrate that grandiose narcissists report more anger and negative affect following negative feedback and achievement failure (Besser & Priel, 2010;Besser & Zeigler-Hill, 2010;Matsuo & DeSouza, 2016). Other evidence suggests that grandiose individuals may use anger as a defense against feelings of shame following humiliation (Bond et al, 2006;Thomaes et al, 2011).…”

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Under the thin skin of narcissus: Facial muscle activity reveals amplified emotional responses to negative social evaluation in individuals with grandiose narcissistic traits

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Individuals with grandiose narcissism exhibit enhanced antagonism and a defensive pattern of discordance between their emotional and physiological reactions to self-threatening evaluations. Although theoretical perspectives link narcissistic defensiveness to negative emotions, empirical evidence linking grandiose narcissism to emotional reactivity remains mixed. The current study used self-reported affect, electrocardiography, and facial electromyography (fEMG) to examine whether people scoring high in grandiose narcissism show amplified physiological and self-reported emotional reactivity to negative social evaluation. Following two challenging cognitive tasks, participants received negative and neutral feedback in a face-to-face evaluation situation. Receiving negative feedback decreased self-reported positive affect and dominance, slowed heart rate, and amplified fEMG activity related to frowning and eye constriction. Although self-reported emotional reactions were unrelated to grandiose narcissism, fEMG activity associated with negative affect was significantly enhanced by grandiose narcissism.In conclusion, individuals with higher levels of grandiose narcissism may not be willing to report overt emotional reactivity to self-threatening feedback, but physiological responses "beneath their thin skin" reveal amplified threat-related facial muscle activity suggestive of a negative emotional state.

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The Effects of Anticipated Negative Feedback on Psychological States Among Narcissists

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Why Negative or Positive, If It makes Me Win? Dark Personality in Spanish Competitive Athletes

Why Negative or Positive, If It makes Me Win? Dark Personality in Spanish Competitive Athletes

Narcissists’ affective well-being: Associations of grandiose narcissism with state affect level and variability.

Under the thin skin of narcissus: Facial muscle activity reveals amplified emotional responses to negative social evaluation in individuals with grandiose narcissistic traits

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