Pub Date : 2025-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104671
Breanna E. Atkinson, Erin A. Heerey
The personality trait, narcissism, is characterized by grandiosity, entitlement, and a heightened drive for social status. Narcissism may therefore influence how people appraise status-relevant social cues. Study 1 examined affective appraisals of status-relevant cues (e.g., “boss”, “assistant”) using an implicit appraisal task. Contrary to expectations, narcissism failed to moderate task performance for stimuli associated with existing social ranks. In Study 2, participants completed a choice-preference task examining positive and negative trait adjectives associated with status pursuit (“ambitious”, “antagonistic”). Results showed a robust relationship between traits associated with negative methods of status pursuit and self-reported narcissism, suggesting that narcissistic individuals may find the use of anti-social tactics (e.g., antagonism, dominance, rivalry) both less off-putting and more desirable in themselves and others.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-24DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104670
Marcin Zajenkowski , Wacław Bąk , Virgil Zeigler-Hill , Jeremiasz Górniak , Jerzy Wojciechowski , Michał Stefanowicz
While narcissism and intellectual humility may seem incompatible, their relationship is more complex due to their multidimensional nature. Across two studies (N1 = 219, Mage = 23.47; SDage = 8.37; N2 = 278, Mage = 21.96; SDage = 4.12; participants recruited through social networking websites), we examined links between three narcissism facets (agentic, antagonistic, neurotic) and four aspects of intellectual humility, controlling for personality and intelligence. Antagonistic and neurotic narcissism were strongly negatively related to independence of intellect and ego, suggesting difficulty separating disagreement from personal threat. Antagonistic narcissism also predicted lower respect for others’ views. In contrast, agentic narcissism showed modest positive links to openness and respect for differing opinions. All three narcissism types were negatively associated with a lack of intellectual overconfidence, highlighting inflated belief in one’s superiority as central to narcissism.
{"title":"Too proud to doubt? The relationship between narcissism and intellectual humility","authors":"Marcin Zajenkowski , Wacław Bąk , Virgil Zeigler-Hill , Jeremiasz Górniak , Jerzy Wojciechowski , Michał Stefanowicz","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104670","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104670","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While narcissism and intellectual humility may seem incompatible, their relationship is more complex due to their multidimensional nature. Across two studies (<em>N</em><sub>1</sub> = 219, <em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 23.47; <em>SD<sub>age</sub></em> = 8.37; <em>N<sub>2</sub> =</em> 278, <em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 21.96; <em>SD<sub>age</sub></em> = 4.12; participants recruited through social networking websites), we examined links between three narcissism facets (agentic, antagonistic, neurotic) and four aspects of intellectual humility, controlling for personality and intelligence. Antagonistic and neurotic narcissism were strongly negatively related to independence of intellect and ego, suggesting difficulty separating disagreement from personal threat. Antagonistic narcissism also predicted lower respect for others’ views. In contrast, agentic narcissism showed modest positive links to openness and respect for differing opinions. All three narcissism types were negatively associated with a lack of intellectual overconfidence, highlighting inflated belief in one’s superiority as central to narcissism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104670"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104669
Jussi Palomäki , Michael Laakasuo , Sari Castrén , Tuomo Kainulainen , Jani Saastamoinen , Niko Suhonen
Cognitive biases strongly influence risky decisions with payoffs. Financial risk-taking tends to increase following prior gains, as if gambling with “house money”. Intelligence and personality also influence risk preferences, but the extent to which they moderate susceptibility to cognitive biases is not understood. We evaluated the house money effect and its moderators by combining data from an online horse betting dataset, comprehensive administrative population registry, and intelligence and personality trait measures (N = 11,220). Gains on the previous betting day were associated with increased betting amounts on the following betting day and shorter time between two consequent sessions. This effect was stronger among individuals with higher extraversion, lower conscientiousness, and lower IQ. Intelligence and personality have tangible monetary implications in real-life risky choices.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104668
Małgorzata Fajkowska , Guido Alessandri , Maria Cyniak-Cieciura , Paweł Dobrowolski , Lorenzo Filosa , Agnieszka Popiel , Bogdan Zawadzki
Our study examined (a) how latent personality profiles based on temperament, anxiety, and depression types and (b) related stress-protective (higher well-being and lower psychological inflexibility) and stress-vulnerability (lower well-being and higher psychological inflexibility) factors (c) are associated with experienced COVID-19 stressors. Participants (N = 1278, 840 women and 437 men, aged 18–71) completed the short form of Anxiety and Depression Questionnaire (ADQ-SF), the Formal Characteristics of Behavior − Temperament Markers Inventory (FCB-TMI), the Positive Mental Health scale (PMH), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II), and a questionnaire assessing stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic. An 8-profile solution was chosen when constructing latent personality profiles. Our results indicate that the sanguine temperament (within coherent/incoherent personality structures, associated or not with affective types) is a protective factor under prolonged stress. A cumulative effect related to the occurrence of two or more affective types in incoherent melancholics and incoherent phlegmatics made them the most vulnerable to experiencing a low level of well-being, a high level of psychological inflexibility, and a high level of prolonged stress. Differences and similarities in the identified types were explained by the dominating elements in their structures and their functions in stimulation processing.
我们的研究考察了(a)基于气质、焦虑和抑郁类型的潜在人格特征，以及(b)相关的压力保护（更高的幸福感和更低的心理不灵活性）和压力脆弱性（更低的幸福感和更高的心理不灵活性）因素(c)与经历过的COVID-19压力源之间的关系。参与者（N = 1278，女性840人，男性437人，年龄18-71岁）完成了焦虑与抑郁简短问卷（ADQ-SF）、行为气质特征量表（FCB-TMI）、积极心理健康量表（PMH）、生活满意度量表（SWLS）、接受与行动问卷- ii （AAQ-II）和新冠肺炎大流行相关压力源评估问卷。在构建潜在人格剖面时，选择了8个剖面解。我们的研究结果表明，乐观气质（在连贯/不连贯的人格结构中，与情感类型相关或不相关）是长期压力下的保护因素。在语无伦次忧郁症和语无伦次粘液症中出现两种或两种以上情感类型的累积效应使他们最容易经历低水平的幸福感、高水平的心理不灵活性和高水平的长期压力。这些类型的差异和相似可以用它们在刺激加工中的结构和功能上的主导因素来解释。
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Pub Date : 2025-09-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104667
Meriel I. Burnett , Paul J. Silvia
The present research applied the Dark Tetrad and HEXACO models to individual differences in the creation of vulgar humor: jokes that are disparaging, obscene, hostile, taboo, or otherwise offensive. A sample of 530 adults completed the SD4 and HEXACO-100 and a creative humor production task, and their responses were coded for vulgar content using Detoxify, a large language model trained to detect offensive material. Creating vulgar humor was associated with being male, younger, and less educated. None of the HEXACO traits significantly predicted vulgarity, but the Dark Tetrad trait of sadism predicted significantly greater vulgarity. Taken together, the findings shed light on who is likely to create jokes that violate norms of politeness.
{"title":"Vulgarity and hilarity: The dark tetrad and HEXACO as predictors of creating aggressive, obscene, and otherwise offensive humor","authors":"Meriel I. Burnett , Paul J. Silvia","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104667","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104667","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present research applied the Dark Tetrad and HEXACO models to individual differences in the creation of vulgar humor: jokes that are disparaging, obscene, hostile, taboo, or otherwise offensive. A sample of 530 adults completed the SD4 and HEXACO-100 and a creative humor production task, and their responses were coded for vulgar content using Detoxify, a large language model trained to detect offensive material. Creating vulgar humor was associated with being male, younger, and less educated. None of the HEXACO traits significantly predicted vulgarity, but the Dark Tetrad trait of sadism predicted significantly greater vulgarity. Taken together, the findings shed light on who is likely to create jokes that violate norms of politeness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104667"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104666
Marc Schreiber , Gregor J. Jenny , Manuela Hürlimann , Yuliya Parfenova , Pius von Däniken , Mark Cieliebak
This paper explores Machine Learning’s (ML) potential to predict motives and personality dispositions from text-based data, aligning with McAdams’ framework on layers of personality. ML-predicted scores demonstrated no significant advantage over a baseline model that consistently predicted the median of the motives or personality dispositions. Possible factors discussed include unmet ML algorithm requirements, unsuitability of collected texts for predicting motives and dispositions, and ML’s limitations in capturing contextualized and implicit aspects of personality. We discuss life narrative research and practice in relation to the nomothetic-idiographic debate and advocate for personality research to incorporate context-specificity and idiosyncrasy. From a social constructionist perspective, we envision future research – though not yet practice – on counselling processes delivered or supported by Generative AI (GenAI).
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Pub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104665
Tabatha Thibault , Kara Thompson , Matthew Keough , Marvin Krank , Patricia J. Conrod , Sherry H. Stewart
This study examined relations between sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-related stress and alcohol consumption using a cross-sectional survey of 1318 students from five Canadian universities. Path analysis found impulsivity was positively associated with all five Covid Stress Scales (CSS-B) and was indirectly associated with more alcohol use through traumatic stress (risk pathway) and indirectly associated with less alcohol consumption through higher danger/contamination fears and economic fears (protective pathways). Sensation seeking was indirectly associated with more alcohol consumption through lower danger/contamination fears (risk pathway). There may have been a ‘healthy’ amount of COVID-related danger/contamination fear that was lacking among sensation seekers. Addressing traumatic stress, such as those inherent during the COVID-19 pandemic, may help reduce drinking among students high in impulsivity..
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Pub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104664
Jennifer Lynch , Miranda Giacomin , Christian Jordan , Alex J. Benson
This study examined how narcissism and honesty-humility were associated with the trajectory of being liked and viewed as narcissistic in task-oriented teams. We tracked 317 participants (70 teams), gathering round-robin ratings of liking and narcissism. Latent growth curve models were used to estimate the role of personality in predicting the trajectory of being liked and being viewed as narcissistic. Antagonistic narcissism was negatively associated with being liked and positively associated with being viewed as narcissistic; these views remained stable over time. Agentic narcissism was positively associated with initially being liked, but only when controlling for antagonistic narcissism. Honesty-humility was not associated with teammate reputations. The results offer insights into the reputational consequences of narcissism, highlighting how antagonistic narcissism undermines teammate relationships.
{"title":"The reputational consequences of narcissism in teams: Trajectories of liking and being viewed as narcissistic","authors":"Jennifer Lynch , Miranda Giacomin , Christian Jordan , Alex J. Benson","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined how narcissism and honesty-humility were associated with the trajectory of being liked and viewed as narcissistic in task-oriented teams. We tracked 317 participants (70 teams), gathering round-robin ratings of liking and narcissism. Latent growth curve models were used to estimate the role of personality in predicting the trajectory of being liked and being viewed as narcissistic. Antagonistic narcissism was negatively associated with being liked and positively associated with being viewed as narcissistic; these views remained stable over time. Agentic narcissism was positively associated with initially being liked, but only when controlling for antagonistic narcissism. Honesty-humility was not associated with teammate reputations. The results offer insights into the reputational consequences of narcissism, highlighting how antagonistic narcissism undermines teammate relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104664"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145096244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-08-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104652
Robert J. Ridder , Charlotte V.O. Witvliet , Hiroki Matsuo , Juliette L. Ratchford , Karen K. Melton , Perry L. Glanzer , Sarah A. Schnitker
Research shows welcoming accountability and a related construct, personal responsibility, are relevant for goal pursuit, but whether they contribute to future satisfaction with goal pursuit progress remains unstudied. This longitudinal investigation examined the pursuit of self-identified goals in 893 students attending 14 US universities across 4 timepoints spanning 2 years using multi-level random-intercepts cross-lagged panel modeling. Between-persons, welcoming accountability, personal responsibility, and goal progress satisfaction were positively associated. At the within-person goal-level, welcoming accountability and personal responsibility predicted higher subsequent levels of each other. However, satisfaction with goal progress only predicted subsequent welcoming accountability. This cybernetic approach to studying welcoming accountability in goal pursuit advances personality science and accountability theory.
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Chronotype differences have traditionally been studied through a unidimensional morningness-eveningness model, linking morningness with positive (adaptive) outcomes and eveningness with negative (maladaptive) ones. This study expands this view using a multidimensional approach, assessing Morning Affect, Eveningness, and Distinctness. Latent Profile Analysis was conducted on a sample of 754 Polish adults, and differences between the resulting profiles were examined using the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits to assess underlying (mal)adaptive personality configurations. The analysis revealed four chronotype profile, two morning types: ‘hardy larks’ (stable, adaptive) and ‘vulnerable larks’ (restrained, inhibited), ‘night owls’ (depressive, emotionally labile) and ‘intermediate finches’ (disinhibited, reactive). These findings indicate that chronotype is indeed a multidimensional construct, with its subtypes reflecting distinct constellations of (mal)adaptive personality traits.
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