Brown Genavee, Marinthe Gaëlle
Northumbria University, UK.
Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, FR.
Int Rev Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 17;37:1. doi: 10.5334/irsp.761. eCollection 2024.
National narcissism is associated with support for nationalist and anti-democratic leaders and decisions in one's own country. We hypothesize that it might also relate to more favorable judgments of outgroup nationalist leaders and actions, even if the latter may pose a threat to the ingroup. Using the context of the Russian attack on Ukraine, we hypothesize that people with a higher level of national narcissism would be more supportive of Russian attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Russian people. This may be due to a higher perception of belief similarity to Putin and Russians. We also considered the moderating role of the explicit target of the attack (Ukraine vs. ingroup). We tested our hypotheses in two studies (Study 1: = 339 French; Study 2: = 400 Americans). In both studies, national narcissism was related to a judgment of the attack (on Ukraine or the ingroup) as less immoral and to a better opinion of Putin. These effects were mediated by perceived belief similarity. In both studies however, these less negative judgments of the attack and of Putin did not extend to Russian people. Our results highlight that national narcissists are inclined to support a nationalist outgroup leader and their violent actions, although these may ultimately harm the ingroup.
民族自恋与对本国民族主义和反民主领导人及决策的支持有关。我们假设，它可能还与对外部群体民族主义领导人及其行为的更积极评价有关，即使后者可能对内部群体构成威胁。以俄罗斯对乌克兰的攻击为背景，我们假设民族自恋程度较高的人会更支持俄罗斯的攻击行为、俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京以及俄罗斯人民。这可能是因为他们觉得自己与普京及俄罗斯人在信念上有更高的相似性。我们还考虑了攻击的明确目标（乌克兰与内部群体）的调节作用。我们在两项研究中检验了我们的假设（研究1：339名法国人；研究2：400名美国人）。在两项研究中，民族自恋都与对攻击行为（针对乌克兰或内部群体）不那么不道德的判断以及对普京的更好评价有关。这些影响是通过感知到的信念相似性来介导的。然而，在两项研究中，这些对攻击行为和普京不那么负面的判断并没有延伸到俄罗斯人民身上。我们的研究结果表明，民族自恋者倾向于支持一个外部群体的民族主义领导人及其暴力行为，尽管这些行为最终可能会伤害内部群体。
