Grandiose narcissism influences the phenomenology of remembered past and imagined future events.

ABSTRACT: Little empirical work has examined future thinking in narcissistic grandiosity. We here extend prior work finding that people scoring high in grandiosity have self-bolstering tendencies in remembering past events, and we consider whether these tendencies extend to imagining future events. Across an initial study (N = 112) and replication (N = 169), participants wrote about remembered past events and imagined future events in which they embodied or would embody either positive or negative traits. Participants then rated those events on several subjective measures. We find that people scoring higher in grandiosity remember past events in which they embody positive traits with greater detail and ease than past events in which they embody negative traits. These same effects persi

SUBMITTER: Finch EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10843788 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature