ArticleScientific reports2017
Self-viewing is associated with negative affect rather than reward in highly narcissistic men: an fMRI study.
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- The Neural Correlates of Narcissism: Is There a Connection with Desire for Fame and Celebrity Worship?Brain sciences · 2023Review
- The salience network is activated during self-recognition from both first-person and third-person perspectives.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Narcissism and the perception of failure - evidence from the error-related negativity and the error positivity.Personality neuroscience · 2023Article
- Early physiological indicators of narcissism and self-esteem in children.Psychophysiology · 2022Article
- Face yourself: The social neuroscience of mirror gazing.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Effects of Self-Esteem on Self-Viewing: An Eye-Tracking Investigation on Mirror Gazing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Narcissistic personality traits and prefrontal brain structure.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Narcissistic traits in young people and how experiencing shame relates to current attachment challenges.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Can neuroscience help to understand narcissism? A systematic review of an emerging field.Personality neuroscience · 2021Review
- Face Perception and Narcissism: Variations of Event-Related Potential Components (P1 & N170) with Admiration and Rivalry.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Social Media Approval Reduces Emotional Arousal for People High in Narcissism: Electrophysiological Evidence.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Individualized prediction of trait narcissism from whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
- Neural correlates underlying change in state self-esteem.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- The Higher the Score, the Darker the Core: The Nonlinear Association Between Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- The Relationship between Grandiose and Vulnerable (Hypersensitive) Narcissism.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Subclinical narcissism is a personality trait with two faces: According to social-cognitive theories it is associated with grandiosity and feelings of superiority, whereas psychodynamic theories emphasize vulnerable aspects like fluctuating self-esteem and emotional conflicts. The psychodynamic view, however, is commonly not supported by self-report studies on subclinical narcissism. Personality neuroscience might help to better understand the phenomenon of narcissism beyond the limits of self-report research. While social-cognitive theory would predict that self-relevant processing should be accompanied by brain activity in reward-related areas in narcissistic individuals, psychodynamic theory would suggest that it should be accompanied by activation in regions pointing to negative affect or emotional conflict. In this study, extreme groups of high and low narcissistic individuals performed a visual self-recognition paradigm during fMRI. Viewing one's own face (as compared to faces of friends and strangers) was accompanied by greater activation of the dorsal and ventral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in highly narcissistic men. These results suggest that highly narcissistic men experience greater negative affect or emotional conflict during self-relevant processing and point to vulnerable aspects of subclinical narcissism that might not be apparent in self-report research.
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