Narcissism and the perception of failure - evidence from the error-related negativity and the error positivity.

ABSTRACT: The literature on narcissism suggests two contradictory ways how highly narcissistic individuals deal with their failures: They might avoid consciously recognising their failures to protect their ego or they might vigilantly turn towards their failures to process cues that are important for maintaining their grandiosity. We tried to dissolve these contradictory positions by studying event-related potential components of error processing and their variations with narcissism. With a speeded go/no-go task, we examined how the error-related negativity (Ne; reflecting an early, automatic processing stage) and the error positivity (Pe; associated with conscious error detection) vary with Admiration and Rivalry, two narcissism dimensions, under ego-threatening conditions. Using multilevel models,

SUBMITTER: Muck M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9947629 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature