University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2022 Mar;48(3):363-381. doi: 10.1177/01461672211007293. Epub 2021 Apr 15.
Narcissists have a relatively higher proclivity for displaying antisocial rather than prosocial behaviors, suggesting a comparatively higher tendency for unfavorably impacting societies. However, maintenance of social order also depends on appropriate responses to others' social behavior. Once we focus on narcissists as observers rather than actors, their impact on social functioning becomes less clear-cut. Theoretical arguments suggest that narcissists could be either hypo-responsive or hyper-responsive to others' social behavior. Across four studies, we examined narcissists' responsiveness to variations in others' antisocial and prosocial behaviors. Results showed that narcissists differentiated less between others' antisociality/prosociality, as reflected in their subsequent moral character evaluations (Studies 1-4) and reward and punishment (Studies 3 and 4). These results suggest that narcissists are hypo-responsive to others' social behaviors. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
自恋者表现出反社会行为而非亲社会行为的倾向相对较高，这表明他们对社会产生不利影响的可能性相对较高。然而，社会秩序的维持也取决于对他人社会行为的适当反应。一旦我们将自恋者视为观察者而不是行为者，他们对社会功能的影响就不那么明确了。理论观点表明，自恋者对他人社会行为的反应可能过低或过高。在四项研究中，我们考察了自恋者对他人反社会和亲社会行为变化的反应。结果表明，自恋者对他人的反社会性/亲社会性的差异较小，这反映在他们随后的道德品质评价（研究 1-4）和奖励和惩罚（研究 3 和 4）中。这些结果表明，自恋者对他人的社会行为反应较低。讨论了对未来研究的影响和方向。
