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Mind-Reading and Metacognition: Narcissism, not Actual Competence, Predicts Self-Estimated Ability
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“This null finding is in line with some earlier research (Ames & Kammrath, 2004).”
From Do Narcissism and Emotional Intelligence Win Us Friends? Modeling Dynamics of Peer Popularity Using Inferential Network Analysis (2016) · cites this paper as Ames & Kammrath, 2004
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“Likewise, narcissists may think that they are exceptionally good at understanding others’ intentions and emotions despite often being less capable of doing so (Ames & Kammrath, 2004; Mota et al., 2019).”
From The "Why" and "How" of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit (2020) · cites this paper as Ames & Kammrath, 2004
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“The varying effect on performance is because of myriad reasons such as cognitive, affective and motivation competencies, inter group relations, type of tasks, ability to handle the tasks (Bashaer et al. 2016;Judge and Zapata 2015) and different indicators of performance used by different researchers (e.g., Ames and Kammrath 2004;Meier and Semmer 2013).”
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“In another study, however [43], individuals with narcissistic traits appear to overestimate their own competence at understanding mental states.”
From Symptom severity and mindreading in narcissistic personality disorder. (2018) · cites this paper as [43]
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“Analogously, Ames and Kammrath [43] found that more severe narcissism is associated with a greater discrepancy between effective and self-assessed competence in understanding mental states of others.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ames, D. R., & Kammrath, L. K.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ames, Daniel R.
- Venue
- Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 187-209
- ISSN
- 0191-5886 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3653
- OpenAlex
- W2154003048
- Cited by
- 238
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 5.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Social Sciences › Education › Social Skills and Education
- Keywords
- theory of mind, metacognition, narcissism, overconfidence, interpersonal sensitivity, deception detection, social judgment, self-aggrandizement, interpersonal perception
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