Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life

Holtzman, Nicholas S.; Vazire, Simine; Mehl, Matthias R.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.06.001

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Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life

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Holtzman, Nicholas S., Vazire, Simine, Mehl, Matthias R.·2010·Journal of Research in Personality

DOI 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.06.001PMC PMC2918908

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Little is known about narcissists' everyday behavior. The goal of this study was to describe how narcissism is manifested in everyday life. Using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), we obtained naturalistic behavior from participants' everyday lives. The results suggest that the defining characteristics of narcissism that have been established from questionnaire and laboratory-based studies are borne out in narcissists' day-to-day behaviors. Narcissists do indeed behave in more extraverted and less agreeable ways than non-narcissists, skip class more (among narcissists high in exploitativeness/entitlement only), and use more sexual language. Furthermore, we found that the link between narcissism and disagreeable behavior is strengthened when controlling for self-esteem, thus extending prior questionnaire-based findings (Paulhus, Robins, Trzesniewski, & Tracy, 2004) to observed, real-world behavior.

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Narcissists are often combative toward others and perceived as confrontational, insulting, belittling, and intimidating.
“At the same time, narcissists are often combative toward others. In such instances, they are often perceived as confrontational, insulting, belittling, and intimidating (Holtzman, Vazire, & Mehl, 2010; Morf & Rhodewalt, 1993; Reijntjes et al., 2016).”
From The "Why" and "How" of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit (2020) · cites this paper as Holtzman, Vazire, & Mehl, 2010
The Results (Behavioral Correlates of Narcissism; page not provided) associate narcissism with disagreeable acts, including arguing, swear words, and anger words, supporting the description of combative behavior. The paper does not report that others perceived participants as confrontational, insulting, belittling, or intimidating. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Narcissists may lie, insult, bully, and retaliate with physical aggression toward those who obstructed their status pursuit.
“Not only might they sometimes lie (Lee & Ashton, 2005), insult (Holtzman et al., 2010), and bully (Reijntjes et al., 2016), but they can also retaliate with physical aggression toward those that obstructed their status pursuit (for a review, see Denissen, Thomaes, & Bushman, 2018).”
From The "Why" and "How" of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit (2020) · cites this paper as Holtzman et al., 2010
Only “insult” is attributed to Holtzman et al. The Method (Disagreeable acts; page unavailable) describes arguing, yelling, and expressing anger toward another person, and the Results report an association between narcissism and a composite of arguing, swear words, and anger words. These support verbal hostility, but the paper does not specifically establish that participants insulted others; the other behaviors in the citing sentence have different citations. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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Authors: Holtzman, N. S., Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R.
Affiliations: Washington University in St. Louis (US)
University of Arizona (US)
Corresponding author: Holtzman, Nicholas S.
ORCID: Holtzman, Nicholas S.
Vazire, Simine
Mehl, Matthias R.
Venue: Journal of Research in Personality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2010-08
Volume: 44
Issue: 4
Pages: 478-484
ISSN: 0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.06.001
PMC: PMC2918908
OpenAlex: W2101528257
Cited by: 180
References: 51
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 20
FWCI: 15.85
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Journal of Research in Personality (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Cancer Institute (R03CA137975)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
Keywords: narcissism, daily behavior, naturalistic behavior, extraversion, agreeableness, self-esteem, sexual language, class skipping, exploitativeness, entitlement

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