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Grandiose (communal and agentic) narcissism and predicted (dis) obedience in the Milgram paradigm

Grandiose (communal and agentic) narcissism and predicted (dis) obedience in the Milgram paradigm
Grandiose (communal and agentic) narcissism and predicted (dis) obedience in the Milgram paradigm
People believe that they would disobey immoral authority in the Milgram experiment. We asked whether high (vs. low) communal and agentic narcissists would manifest a more pronounced better-than-average effect (BTAE) in their predicted disobedience. Participants (N = 348) estimated the moment at which they and the average peer would quit the Milgram experiment. High communal narcissists claimed that they would disobey the immoral authority and quit the experiment earlier (positively predicting the BTAE), whereas high agentic narcissists claimed that they, as well as an average other, would obey longer (negatively predicting the BTAE). Differences in the impression management component of socially desirable responding played a role in these links.
Milgram experiment, agentic narcissism, better than average effect, communal narcissism, narcissism
0191-8869
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Zdunek, Roksana R.
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Czarna, Anna Z.
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Zdunek, Roksana R.
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Czarna, Anna Z.
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Zdunek, Roksana R., Czarna, Anna Z. and Sedikides, Constantine (2022) Grandiose (communal and agentic) narcissism and predicted (dis) obedience in the Milgram paradigm. Personality and Individual Differences, 189, 1-45, [111514]. (doi:10.1016/j.paid.2022.111514).

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Abstract

People believe that they would disobey immoral authority in the Milgram experiment. We asked whether high (vs. low) communal and agentic narcissists would manifest a more pronounced better-than-average effect (BTAE) in their predicted disobedience. Participants (N = 348) estimated the moment at which they and the average peer would quit the Milgram experiment. High communal narcissists claimed that they would disobey the immoral authority and quit the experiment earlier (positively predicting the BTAE), whereas high agentic narcissists claimed that they, as well as an average other, would obey longer (negatively predicting the BTAE). Differences in the impression management component of socially desirable responding played a role in these links.

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Accepted/In Press date: 7 January 2022
Published date: April 2022
Additional Information: Funding Information: The work was supported by grant 2018/30/E/HS6/00863 from the National Science Center , Poland, awarded to the second author. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier Ltd Copyright: Copyright 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords: Milgram experiment, agentic narcissism, better than average effect, communal narcissism, narcissism

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Local EPrints ID: 454184
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/454184
ISSN: 0191-8869
PURE UUID: 2726e2a5-6cca-42bb-a53d-e6ed5cf3f18f
ORCID for Constantine Sedikides: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-889X

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Date deposited: 01 Feb 2022 18:08
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 07:04

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Author: Roksana R. Zdunek
Author: Anna Z. Czarna

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