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Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life
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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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“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).”
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“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).”
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Metadata
- 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.
- Venue
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-08
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 478-484
- ISSN
- 0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2918908
- OpenAlex
- W2101528257
- Cited by
- 180
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- 51
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- FWCI
- 15.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- 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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