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Perceptual Sensitivity of Narcissists to Self-Relevant Information

Abstract

This study investigated the perceptual sensitivity to positive and negative self-relevant information in narcissists who demonstrated both overt (i.e., grandiosity) and covert (i.e., fragility) narcissistic tendencies. Four hundred and three Korean undergraduates completed the Narcissistic Personality Disorder Scale (NPDS; Hwang, 1995). Thirteen students who scored high, average, and low on the NPDS were recruited as high narcissists, average, and low narcissists, respectively. The 39 participants performed a category judgment task that required them to categorize either clothing or reading material related to a noun which was presented for 500 msec on the computer screen, while ignoring a simultaneously presented adjective. The distracting adjectives were either positive self‐relevant, negative self‐relevant, or neutral. Results indicated that high narcissists exhibited extended category judgment time when negative self-relevant adjectives were presented as distracters. This indicated narcissists’ attention was captured by negative adjectives, thereby demonstrating perceptual sensitivity to negative self-relevant information in narcissists.

keywords
자기애, 자기애적 민감성, 범주판단과제, Narcissism, narcissistic hypersensitivity, category judgment task

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