Aiming (too) high: Narcissism and unrealistic goal setting.

Ellen F Finch, Sarah E Kalinowski, Daniel L Schacter, Jill M Hooley

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Article in Personality and individual differences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Emotional future simulations: neural and cognitive perspectives.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025
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Ellen F FinchDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA USA.

Sarah E KalinowskiDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA USA.

Daniel L SchacterDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA USA.

Jill M HooleyDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA USA.

Funding

Episodic Retrieval and Problem Solving in AgingR01AG008441 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI SCHACTER, DANIEL L · 1989 to 2022

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NIA NIH HHS R01 AG008441

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is well established that people scoring high in narcissism fantasize about a grandiose future. However, little research has examined whether narcissism is actually associated with setting unrealistic, grandiose future goals for oneself. In the present study, we pool three independent adult samples (total

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agentic extraversiongoal settinggrandiose fantasizingnarcissism

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PMID38882675

DOI10.1016/j.paid.2024.112614

PMCPMC11178282

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