Abstract

Existing empirical research and theory suggests that narcissistic individuals engage in self-regulatory processes aimed at minimizing vulnerability during social interactions. We investigate this tendency of narcissists to minimize vulnerability in social interactions by examining their physiological reactivity during a social evaluative task, predicting that narcissists would be highly responsive to social feedback and particularly defensive to rejecting feedback.

Citation

Akinola, Modupe, and Wendy Berry Mendes. "Narcissistic tendencies and sensitivity to social feedback: An examination of cardiovascular reactivity during social evaluative situations." Columbia, Manuscript in preparation, 2009.

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