Individual differences in narcissism: Inflated self-views across the lifespan and around the world

By J. Foster, W. Keith Campbell, Jean M. Twenge. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Mapping the scale of the narcissism epidemic: Increases in narcissism 2002–2007 within ethnic groups (2008, unknown): “For example, among college age (18–23) participants in Foster et al.’s (2003) data, Asian-Americans scored 0.”
Are there such things as “Narcissists” in social psychology? A taxometric analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (2007, background): “As a clinical construct, narcissism grew to prominence with the writings of Freud (1914/1957). Kernberg (1974, 1975) and Kohut (1977) continued this clinical tradition, which ultimately led to the inclusion of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) in the DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association, ”
Hear Me Write: Does CEO Narcissism Affect Disclosure? (2019, background): “…narcissism because this initial period is often non-representative (in terms of CEO behavior) and volatile because of anomalies associated with CEO succession, such as Big Baths 3 Prior research considers narcissism as a stable personality trait after young adulthood (e.g., Foster et al. 2003).”
Is Facebook Linked to Selfishness? Investigating the Relationships among Social Media Use, Empathy, and Narcissism (2014, background): “Additionally, narcissism has been shown to decrease as people age [37].”
In Pursuit of Greatness: CEO Narcissism, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Firm Performance Variance (2013, unknown): “Samuel and Widiger (2008) provide a review of the face, content, convergent, divergent and nomological validity of the narcissism scale, and several other meta-analyses offer evidence of the validity of the NPI-40 scale (Campbell et al., 2000; Campbell et al., 2002; Campbell et al., 2007; Foster et ”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “Dark Triad Personality Traits Several studies have found sex differences in Dark Triad personality traits, with men typically scoring higher in Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and psychopathy (Foster et al. 2003; Jonason et al. 2009; McHoskey 2001).”
The internet as psychological laboratory. (2006, background): “Other personality researchers have adapted a variety of other personality inventories for online studies as well (e.g., Foster et al. 2003; Gosling & Bonnenburg 1998; Robins et al. 2001, 2002; Wei et al. 2004).”
Echoes of our upbringing: How growing up wealthy or poor relates to narcissism, leader behavior, and leader effectiveness (2016, background): “In these studies, feelingwealthy (Piff, 2014), self-identifying as rich (Cai, Kwan, & Sedikides, 2012), and having higher income (Foster et al., 2003) were associated with higher narcissism.”
Narcissism and celebrity (2006, methodology): “Although many studies have used the NPI for speciWc populations, Foster et al. (2003) conducted a recent, comprehensive study of narcissism using 3445 individuals from six continents, representing many walks of life, and whose average age was 24.5 years (SDD 9.1; range 8–83).”
Egos inflating over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. (2008, background): “Americans score higher on narcissism than people from other world regions (Foster et al., 2003).”