TY - JOUR
T1 - Sounds like a narcissist
T2 - Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life
AU - Holtzman, Nicholas S.
AU - Vazire, Simine
AU - Mehl, Matthias R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The preparation of this manuscript was supported by NIH grant R03CA137975. We thank Tal Yarkoni for his valuable comments on a previous draft of this manuscript.
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - Little is known about narcissists' everyday behavior. The goal of this study was to describe how narcissism is manifested in everyday life. Using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), we obtained naturalistic behavior from participants' everyday lives. The results suggest that the defining characteristics of narcissism that have been established from questionnaire and laboratory-based studies are borne out in narcissists' day-to-day behaviors. Narcissists do indeed behave in more extraverted and less agreeable ways than non-narcissists, skip class more (among narcissists high in exploitativeness/entitlement only), and use more sexual language. Furthermore, we found that the link between narcissism and disagreeable behavior is strengthened when controlling for self-esteem, thus extending prior questionnaire-based findings (Paulhus, Robins, Trzesniewski, & Tracy, 2004) to observed, real-world behavior.
AB - Little is known about narcissists' everyday behavior. The goal of this study was to describe how narcissism is manifested in everyday life. Using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), we obtained naturalistic behavior from participants' everyday lives. The results suggest that the defining characteristics of narcissism that have been established from questionnaire and laboratory-based studies are borne out in narcissists' day-to-day behaviors. Narcissists do indeed behave in more extraverted and less agreeable ways than non-narcissists, skip class more (among narcissists high in exploitativeness/entitlement only), and use more sexual language. Furthermore, we found that the link between narcissism and disagreeable behavior is strengthened when controlling for self-esteem, thus extending prior questionnaire-based findings (Paulhus, Robins, Trzesniewski, & Tracy, 2004) to observed, real-world behavior.
KW - Behavior
KW - Language use
KW - Narcissism
KW - Personality traits
KW - Sexual behavior
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.06.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77955172569
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 44
SP - 478
EP - 484
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
IS - 4
ER -