A wolf in sheep’s clothing?
- Communal narcissists possess the unique belief in their capability to bring about freedom to the world, and so see themselves as “saints”. To examine if this communal self-view extends to the more automatic component of self-evaluation, that is, a person’s implicit self-view, the present study (N = 701) tested the extent to which communal narcissism was associated with explicit communal self-ratings and implicit associations between the self and communal attributes. The latent correlation between communal narcissism and explicit communal self-views was strongly positive, yet no such relationship emerged for implicit communal self-views. These findings support the notion that communal narcissism may represent an effort to gain favorable appraisals from others in the absence of a genuine communal self-view.
| Author details: | Ramzi FatfoutaORCiDGND, Michela Schröder-AbeORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2018.07.004 |
| ISSN: | 0092-6566 |
| ISSN: | 1095-7251 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of research in personality |
| Subtitle (English): | Communal narcissism and positive implicit self-views in the communal domain |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | San Diego |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2018 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/09/14 |
| Tag: | Agency; Communion; Implicit Association Test; Narcissism; Self |
| Volume: | 76 |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 17 |
| Last Page: | 21 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
