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Facial Emotion Recognition and Social-Cognitive Correlates of Narcissistic Features

De Panfilis, Chiara, Antonucci, Camilla, Meehan, Kevin B., Cain, Nicole M., Soliani, Antonio, Marchesi, Carlo, Clarkin, John F., Sambataro, Fabio·2019·Journal of Personality Disorders
DOI 10.1521/pedi_2018_32_350
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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is associated with both seeming indifference and hypersensitivity to social feedback. This study evaluated whether rejection sensitivity and empathic difficulties in NPD are accounted for by altered facial emotion recognition (FER). Two-hundred non-clinical individuals self-reported NPD features, rejection sensitivity, and empathy and performed an FER task assessing the ability to determine the presence or absence of an emotion when viewing neutral and negative facial stimuli presented at varying emotional intensities (25%, 50%, 75%). Those with higher NPD features were faster at accurately recognizing neutral and low, 25%–intensity emotional stimuli. This response pattern mediated the association between NPD features and increased anger about rejection. Thus, individuals with high NPD traits are hypervigilant toward subtle negative emotions and neutral expressions; this may explain their tendency to experience intense angry feelings when facing the possibility that the others would not meet their need for acceptance.

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  • These aspects of narcissism have also been documented within published literature.

    “These aspects of narcissism have also been documented within published literature [12, 27, 53, 54].”

    From Living with pathological narcissism: a qualitative study (2020) · cites this paper as [12]

  • Vulnerable narcissism includes depressed mood, insecurity, hypersensitivity, shame and identification with victimhood.

    “Vulnerable narcissism, in marked contrast to the overt grandiose features listed in DSM-5 criteria, includes instances of depressed mood, insecurity, hypersensitivity, shame and identification with victimhood [8–12].”

    From Living with pathological narcissism: a qualitative study (2020) · cites this paper as [12]

  • NPD is associated with a combination of difficulty recognizing emotional facial expressions, especially fear and disgust, along with hypervigilance toward negative and neutral emotions and a propensity to react with anger.

    “NPD is associated with a combination of difficulty recognizing emotional facial expressions, especially fear and disgust (34), along with hypervigilance toward negative and neutral emotions and a propensity to react with anger (35).”

    From Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Progress in Understanding and Treatment (2022) · cites this paper as [35]

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Authors
De Panfilis, C., Antonucci, C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Soliani, A., Marchesi, C., Clarkin, J. F., & Sambataro, F.
Affiliations
  • Unit of Neuroscience, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy.
  • Azienda Unita' Sanitaria Locale di Parma (IT)
  • Long Island University (US)
  • University of Parma (IT)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
  • University of Udine (IT)
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Personality Disorders
Publisher
Guilford Publications
Published
2019-08
Volume
33
Issue
4
Pages
433-449
ISSN
0885-579X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1521/pedi_2018_32_350
OpenAlex
W2806401148
Cited by
34
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2
FWCI
3.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Personality Disorders (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine) (submittedVersion)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
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
narcissistic personality disorder, facial emotion recognition, rejection sensitivity, empathy, emotional intensity, social cognition
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Personality Disorders, Social Behavior, Recognition, Psychology, Young Adult

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