Narcissism and Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Goal Congruence

By C. Morf, C. Weir, Maayan Davidov. 2000

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Jessica L. Tracy
2. Richard W. Robins
3. Roy F. Baumeister
4. W. Keith Campbell
5. H. Wallace
6. Lora E. Park
7. C. Morf
8. J. Crusius

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Jessica L. Tracy
2. Richard W. Robins
3. J. Crusius
4. Jens Lange
5. Jennifer Crocker
6. Lora E. Park
7. J. Gillespie
8. Roy F. Baumeister

In Social Psychology

1. Jessica L. Tracy
2. Lora E. Park
3. Richard W. Robins
4. Jennifer Crocker
5. Roy F. Baumeister
6. J. Crusius
7. Jens Lange
8. J. Gillespie

Citations in the corpus

• The psychological structure of pride: a tale of two facets. (2007, result): “The correlations with narcissism are consistent with this interpretation, given previous findings that narcissists tend to be more motivated by performance than the mastery aspects of a task ( Morf, Weir, & Davidov, 2000 ).”
• A motivated action theory account of goal orientation. (2005, background): “For example, researchers attempt to induce varying degrees of performance orientation by manipulating the degree to which a situation is interpersonally competitive (e.g., Jagacinski & Nicholls, 1984; Morf et al., 2000) or the degree to which mistakes are acceptable (e.g., Martocchio, 1994).”
• The performance of narcissists rises and falls with perceived opportunity for glory. (2002, background): “In their examination of the intrinsic motivations of narcissists, Morf et al. (2000) found that male narcissists were more motivated than female narcissists to prove their superiority over others.”
• The Evil Queen's Dilemma: Linking Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry to Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, background): “…and conflicting evidence on the behavioural outcomes of narcissism such as narcissists’ propensity to be competitive (Morf & Rhodewalt, 2001; Morf et al., 2000; Raskin & Terry, 1988) or their hostile behaviours directed at the better-off (Morf & Rhodewalt, 1993; South, Oltmanns, &…”
• Me, myself, and I: influence of CEO narcissism on firms’ innovation strategy and the likelihood of product-harm crises (2017, background): “These scholars also find that narcissists enjoy taking competitive actions more than others do (Morf et al. 2000), seek out situations in which they can dominate others (Hogan et al.”
• Unraveling the Paradoxes of Narcissism: A Dynamic Self-Regulatory Processing Model (2001, background): “…provide possibilities for self-promotion: They make ability attributions for positive outcomes (Rhodewalt & Morf, 1995, 1998), persist at a task framed in terms of interpersonal competition (Morf et al., 2000), and are attracted to admiring partners with positive qualities (W. K. Campbell, 1999).”
• The costly pursuit of self-esteem. (2004, background): “Morf et al. (2000) suggest that the congruence between narcissists' chronic preoccupation with satisfying ego concerns and the situational goal of outperforming others leads to increased intrinsic interest in the task.”