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Michael Dufner

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ID4231000
NAMEMichael Dufner
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEDufner
SIGNATUREDUFNER M
AFFILIATIONSLeipzig University
ORCID0000-0002-8354-6193
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS194
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5
  • Behavioral and Valuation Contingency: Why the Same Dispositions Lead to Different Social Evaluations Across Contexts

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Stathis Grapsa et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2026

    Studies have linked personality dispositions to important social evaluations, such as how much power individuals are granted, or how much they are liked. Yet, these links are not always consistent and seem to depend on the social context. We zeroed in on this issue, testing two mutually non-exclusive hypotheses on how the context might moderate the effects of personality dispositions on perceptions of power and likability in newly formed groups. …

  • The Ego’s Bodyguard: The Role of Personality in Self-Protective Reactions

    Open Access•Christoph Heine, Stefan C Schmukle et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2026

    When faced with self-threat, people often engage in self-protective reactions. Yet not everyone does. The extent to which self-protection occurs, is thought to depend on people’s personality. We put this claim to test by considering multiple personality traits from different content domains. In an experiment, participants ( N = 1744) performed a bogus performance test and received negative versus positive feedback. As an indicator of self-protect…

  • Double-tap or scroll away? The social costs of humblebragging on Instagram

    Ramzi Fatfouta, Michael Dufner•ARTICLE•Psychology of Popular Media•2026

  • The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers

    Open Access•Johanna Hepp, Christoph Heine et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2026•Cited by: 1•References: 34

    BACKGROUND: Is being famous a risk factor for premature death? Previous studies indicate that famous musicians have a higher mortality risk compared with the general population. However, these studies did not disentangle whether fame contributes to this increased risk, or whether it can be explained entirely by the demands of the music profession. The present study addresses this gap by isolating the effect of fame within the profession. METHODS:…

  • Is Narcissism Linked to Stress Reactivity Under Social-Evaluative Threat

    Open Access•Julia Stern, Christian Otte et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2025

    Previous research reported that different subtypes of narcissism lead to stronger or weaker stress responses, due to narcissistic individual’s sensitivity to social evaluation. However, evidence remains mixed. In the current preregistered study, we investigated psychological and physiological stress response indicators (self-reports, salivary cortisol levels, blood pressure, and heart rate) of N = 161 male participants exposed to the Trier Social…

  • How aware are people of their current affect? A physiology-based investigation of affective awareness

    Christoph Heine, Michael Dufner•ARTICLE•Emotion•2025

    The assumption that people differ in affective awareness (i.e., the extent to which a person's subjective affective experience matches their affective bodily state) is central to emotional competence. To test this assumption empirically, we used a physiology-based approach to investigate individual differences in affective awareness. Participants ( N = 255) viewed 76 pictures with affective content and rated their experienced affect. Facial muscl…

  • How Are Provided and Received Social Support Related to Relationship Satisfaction and Self-Esteem? A Comprehensive Test of Competing Hypotheses

    Open Access•Anna Köhler, Christoph Heine et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2024

    The amount of social support partners provide and receive in romantic relationships is important for psychological well-being. But in what sense exactly? Divergent and highly nuanced hypotheses exist in the literature. We explicitly spelled out these hypotheses, specified a statistical model for each using response surface analyses, and simultaneously tested which model had the most empirical support. We analyzed data from more than 16,000 partic…

  • Do Agency and Communion Explain the Relationship Between Perceiver and Target Effects in Interpersonal Perception? A Meta-Analysis on Generalized Reciprocity

    Open Access•Titus Schauf, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2023

    This meta-analysis examines generalized reciprocity, that is, the relationship between how people perceive others and how they are perceived by others. It tests the hypothesis that generalized reciprocity varies as a function of the content domain under investigation. Generalized reciprocity for attributes with primarily communal content (e.g., friendliness) was hypothesized to be more positive than generalized reciprocity for attributes with pri…

  • An EMG-based approach toward the assessment of implicit self-esteem

    Open Access•Melanie Schliebener, Livia Kraft et al.•ARTICLE•Acta Psychologica•2023

    An important aspect of implicit self-esteem is the positivity of peoples spontaneous affective reactions to the self. In this study, we developed and validated a physiology-based measure that captures such positive reactions. We presented participants (N = 256) self-related stimuli (i.e., pictures of themselves) and used electromyography (EMG) to record changes in facial muscular activity that are indicative of subtle smiling. EMG responses were …

  • The true role that suppressor effects play in condition-based regression analysis: None. A reply to Fiedler (2021)

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•References: 2

    Condition-based regression analysis (CRA) is a statistical method for testing self-enhancement effects. That is, CRA indicates whether, in a set of empirical data, people with higher values on the directed discrepancy self-view S minus reality criterion R (i.e., S-R) tend to have higher values on some outcome variable (e.g., happiness). In a critical comment, Fiedler (2021) claims that CRA yields inaccurate conclusions in data with a suppressor e…

  • Narcissism and partner-enhancement at different relationship stages

    Open Access•Anna Z Czarna, Magdalena Śmieja et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 70

    Partner-enhancement refers to perceiving the romantic partner more positively than one’s own self. Partner-enhancement often varies as a function of relationship duration: It is stronger in the earlier than later stage of a relationship. We asked whether narcissism moderates the association between relationship duration and partner-enhancement. We conducted three studies, with two testing participants individually (N1 = 70; N2 = 412) and the thir…

  • Positivity in peer perceptions over time: Personality explains variation at zero-acquaintance, popularity explains differential change

    Richard Rau, Erika N Carlson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•Cited by: 1

    People have characteristic ways of perceiving others' personalities. When judging others on several traits, some perceivers tend to form globally positive and others tend to form globally negative impressions. These differences, often termed perceiver effects, have mostly been conceptualized as a static construct that taps perceivers' personal stereotypes about the average other. Here, we assessed perceiver effects repeatedly in small groups of s…

  • Affective contingencies of narcissism

    Stathis Grapsa, Eddie Brummelman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•Cited by: 2

    123). Results indicated that narcissism was linked to increased affective reactivity to power, and this pattern was present for both admiration and rivalry. Narcissism was unrelated to affective reactivity to affiliation, with an important exception: Individuals with higher levels of narcissistic rivalry exhibited decreased reactivity toward satisfactions and increased reactivity toward frustrations of affiliation. Results were more robust for se…

  • Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions

    Open Access•Julie C Driebe, Morgan J Sidari et al.•ARTICLE•Evolution and Human Behavior•2021

  • The End of a Stereotype: Only Children Are Not More Narcissistic Than People With Siblings

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Mitja D Back et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2020

    The current research dealt with the stereotype that only children are more narcissistic than people with siblings. We first investigated the prevalence of this stereotype. In an online study (Study 1, N = 556), laypeople rated a typical only child and a typical person with siblings on narcissistic admiration and narcissistic rivalry, the two subdimensions of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire. They ascribed both higher admirati…

  • Self‐esteem change during the transition from university to work

    Open Access•Anne K Reitz, Patrick E Shrout et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2020

    OBJECTIVE: The current study examined whether the transition from university to work, a major developmental milestone in young adulthood, was related to stability and change in self-esteem. METHOD: Self-esteem was assessed in the last year of their master's program (T1) of 163 27-year old students and 14 months later, when they had graduated and half of them had started a full-time job (T2). Daily diaries were used to assess the occurrence of ach…

  • What do highly narcissistic people think and feel about (their) intelligence

    Open Access•Marcin Zajenkowski, Anna Z Czarna et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2020

    OBJECTIVE: The current research comprehensively examined how grandiose and vulnerable narcissism are linked to intelligence and intelligence-related beliefs and emotions. METHOD: In four studies (total N = 1,141), we tested the associations between both forms of narcissism, subjectively and objectively assessed intelligence, basic personality traits, test-related stress, beliefs about intelligence, and well-being. RESULTS: Both forms of narcissis…

  • Self-Enhancement and Psychological Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Jochen E Gebauer et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2019

    This article advances the debate about costs and benefits of self-enhancement (the tendency to maintain unrealistically positive self-views) with a comprehensive meta-analytic review (299 samples, N = 126,916). The review considers relations between self-enhancement and personal adjustment (life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, depression), and between self-enhancement and interpersonal adjustment (informant reports of domain-gener…

  • Revealing Subgroups That Differ in Common and Distinctive Variation in Multi-Block Data: Clusterwise Sparse Simultaneous Component Analysis

    Open Access•Shuai Yuan, Kim De Roover et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2019•References: 5

    Social and behavioral studies more and more often yield multi-block data, which consist of novel blocks of data (e.g., data from wearable devices) and traditional blocks of data (e.g., survey data) collected from the same sample. Multi-block data offer researchers valuable insights into complex social mechanisms, where several influences act together. Yet such mechanisms are likely to differ among subgroups. Hence, fully revealing the composite m…

  • Can other-derogation be beneficial? Seeing others as low in agency can lead to an agentic reputation in newly formed face-to-face groups

    Richard Rau, Steffen Nestler et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Whenever groups form, members readily and intuitively judge each other's agentic characteristics (e.g., self-confidence or assertiveness). We tested the hypothesis that perceiving others as low in these characteristics triggers agentic interpersonal behavior among perceivers, which benefits their own reputation in terms of agency. We analyzed data from a longitudinal field study (Study 1, n = 109), a multiwave laboratory study (Study 2, n = 311),…

  • Is accurate, positive, or inflated self-perception most advantageous for psychological adjustment? A competitive test of key hypotheses

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2018•Cited by: 12•References: 3

    Empirical research on the (mal-)adaptiveness of favorable self-perceptions, self-enhancement, and self-knowledge has typically applied a classical null-hypothesis testing approach and provided mixed and even contradictory findings. Using data from 5 studies (laboratory and field, total N = 2,823), we used an information-theoretic approach combined with Response Surface Analysis to provide the first competitive test of 6 popular hypotheses: that m…

  • Enhanced versus simply positive: A new condition-based regression analysis to disentangle effects of self-enhancement from effects of positivity of self-view

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2018•Cited by: 4

    Despite a large body of literature and ongoing refinements of analytical techniques, research on the consequences of self-enhancement (SE) is still vague about how to define SE effects, and empirical results are inconsistent. In this paper, we point out that part of this confusion is due to a lack of conceptual and methodological differentiation between effects of individual differences in how much people enhance themselves (SE) and in how positi…

  • Narcissism and romantic relationships: The differential impact of narcissistic admiration and rivalry

    Stefanie N Wurst, Stefanie Wurst et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 25

    Narcissism is known to be related to romantic success in short-term contexts (dating, early stage relationships) but also to problems in long-term committed relationships. We propose that these diverging romantic outcomes of narcissism can be explained by differential associations with agentic versus antagonistic dimensions of grandiose narcissism: Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry. Both dimensions serve the central narcissistic goal of gaining…

  • Puffed-up but shaky selves: State self-esteem level and variability in narcissists

    Katharina Geukes, Steffen Nestler et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 17

    Different theoretical conceptualizations characterize grandiose narcissists by high, yet fragile self-esteem. Empirical evidence, however, has been inconsistent, particularly regarding the relationship between narcissism and self-esteem fragility (i.e., self-esteem variability). Here, we aim at unraveling this inconsistency by disentangling the effects of two theoretically distinct facets of narcissism (i.e., admiration and rivalry) on the two as…

  • Double dissociation between implicit and explicit affiliative motives: A closer look at socializing behavior in dyadic interactions

    Open Access•Birk Hagemeyer, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 11

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  • Narcissistic admiration and rivalry: Disentangling the bright and dark sides of narcissism

    Mitja D Back, Albrecht C P Küfner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2013•Cited by: 114•References: 11

    We present a process model that distinguishes 2 dimensions of narcissism: admiration and rivalry. We propose that narcissists' overarching goal of maintaining a grandiose self is pursued by 2 separate pathways, characterized by distinct cognitive, affective-motivational, and behavioral processes. In a set of 7 studies, we validated this 2-dimensional model using the newly developed Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ). We show…

  • Narcissism and romantic relationships: The differential impact of narcissistic admiration and rivalry

    Stefanie N Wurst, Stefanie Wurst et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 25

    Narcissism is known to be related to romantic success in short-term contexts (dating, early stage relationships) but also to problems in long-term committed relationships. We propose that these diverging romantic outcomes of narcissism can be explained by differential associations with agentic versus antagonistic dimensions of grandiose narcissism: Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry. Both dimensions serve the central narcissistic goal of gaining…

  • Puffed-up but shaky selves: State self-esteem level and variability in narcissists

    Katharina Geukes, Steffen Nestler et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 17

    Different theoretical conceptualizations characterize grandiose narcissists by high, yet fragile self-esteem. Empirical evidence, however, has been inconsistent, particularly regarding the relationship between narcissism and self-esteem fragility (i.e., self-esteem variability). Here, we aim at unraveling this inconsistency by disentangling the effects of two theoretically distinct facets of narcissism (i.e., admiration and rivalry) on the two as…

  • Is accurate, positive, or inflated self-perception most advantageous for psychological adjustment? A competitive test of key hypotheses

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2018•Cited by: 12•References: 3

    Empirical research on the (mal-)adaptiveness of favorable self-perceptions, self-enhancement, and self-knowledge has typically applied a classical null-hypothesis testing approach and provided mixed and even contradictory findings. Using data from 5 studies (laboratory and field, total N = 2,823), we used an information-theoretic approach combined with Response Surface Analysis to provide the first competitive test of 6 popular hypotheses: that m…

  • Affective contingencies in the affiliative domain: Physiological assessment, associations with the affiliation motive, and prediction of behavior

    Michael Dufner, Ruben C Arslan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2015•Cited by: 6

    According to classical motive disposition theory, individuals differ in their propensity to derive pleasure from affiliative experiences. This propensity is considered a core process underlying the affiliation motive and a pervasive cause of motivated behavior. In this study, we tested these assumptions. We presented participants with positive affiliative stimuli and used electromyography to record changes in facial muscular activity that are ind…

  • The effects of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism on liking-based and disliking-based centrality in social networks

    Anna Z Czarna, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 12

  • Enhanced versus simply positive: A new condition-based regression analysis to disentangle effects of self-enhancement from effects of positivity of self-view

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2018•Cited by: 4

    Despite a large body of literature and ongoing refinements of analytical techniques, research on the consequences of self-enhancement (SE) is still vague about how to define SE effects, and empirical results are inconsistent. In this paper, we point out that part of this confusion is due to a lack of conceptual and methodological differentiation between effects of individual differences in how much people enhance themselves (SE) and in how positi…

  • Who is open to a narcissistic romantic partner? The roles of sensation seeking, trait anxiety, and similarity

    Open Access•Michael P Grosz, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 34

  • Narcissism and partner-enhancement at different relationship stages

    Open Access•Anna Z Czarna, Magdalena Śmieja et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 70

    Partner-enhancement refers to perceiving the romantic partner more positively than one’s own self. Partner-enhancement often varies as a function of relationship duration: It is stronger in the earlier than later stage of a relationship. We asked whether narcissism moderates the association between relationship duration and partner-enhancement. We conducted three studies, with two testing participants individually (N1 = 70; N2 = 412) and the thir…

  • Affective contingencies of narcissism

    Stathis Grapsa, Eddie Brummelman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•Cited by: 2

    123). Results indicated that narcissism was linked to increased affective reactivity to power, and this pattern was present for both admiration and rivalry. Narcissism was unrelated to affective reactivity to affiliation, with an important exception: Individuals with higher levels of narcissistic rivalry exhibited decreased reactivity toward satisfactions and increased reactivity toward frustrations of affiliation. Results were more robust for se…

  • The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers

    Open Access•Johanna Hepp, Christoph Heine et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2026•Cited by: 1•References: 34

    BACKGROUND: Is being famous a risk factor for premature death? Previous studies indicate that famous musicians have a higher mortality risk compared with the general population. However, these studies did not disentangle whether fame contributes to this increased risk, or whether it can be explained entirely by the demands of the music profession. The present study addresses this gap by isolating the effect of fame within the profession. METHODS:…

  • Positivity in peer perceptions over time: Personality explains variation at zero-acquaintance, popularity explains differential change

    Richard Rau, Erika N Carlson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•Cited by: 1

    People have characteristic ways of perceiving others' personalities. When judging others on several traits, some perceivers tend to form globally positive and others tend to form globally negative impressions. These differences, often termed perceiver effects, have mostly been conceptualized as a static construct that taps perceivers' personal stereotypes about the average other. Here, we assessed perceiver effects repeatedly in small groups of s…

  • Can other-derogation be beneficial? Seeing others as low in agency can lead to an agentic reputation in newly formed face-to-face groups

    Richard Rau, Steffen Nestler et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Whenever groups form, members readily and intuitively judge each other's agentic characteristics (e.g., self-confidence or assertiveness). We tested the hypothesis that perceiving others as low in these characteristics triggers agentic interpersonal behavior among perceivers, which benefits their own reputation in terms of agency. We analyzed data from a longitudinal field study (Study 1, n = 109), a multiwave laboratory study (Study 2, n = 311),…

  • Double dissociation between implicit and explicit affiliative motives: A closer look at socializing behavior in dyadic interactions

    Open Access•Birk Hagemeyer, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 11

  • Positive Intelligence Illusions: On the Relation Between Intellectual Self‐Enhancement and Psychological Adjustment

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Jaap J A Denissen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2012

    The relation between self‐enhancement and psychological adjustment has been debated for over 2 decades. This controversy is partly due to the variety of approaches implicated in the assessment of mainly self‐enhancement but also psychological adjustment. We adopted a face‐valid approach by statistically removing actual intellectual ability variance from self‐rated intellectual ability variance. Study 1 ( N = 2,048), a concurrent Internet investig…

  • Narcissistic admiration and rivalry: Disentangling the bright and dark sides of narcissism

    Mitja D Back, Albrecht C P Küfner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2013•Cited by: 114•References: 11

    We present a process model that distinguishes 2 dimensions of narcissism: admiration and rivalry. We propose that narcissists' overarching goal of maintaining a grandiose self is pursued by 2 separate pathways, characterized by distinct cognitive, affective-motivational, and behavioral processes. In a set of 7 studies, we validated this 2-dimensional model using the newly developed Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ). We show…

  • The effects of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism on liking-based and disliking-based centrality in social networks

    Anna Z Czarna, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 12

  • Narcissism and Emotional Contagion: Do Narcissists “Catch” the Emotions of Others

    Open Access•Anna Z Czarna, Monika Wróbel et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2015

    In this research, we investigated the association between narcissism and one central aspect of empathy, susceptibility to emotional contagion (the transfer of emotional states from one person to another). In a laboratory study ( N = 101), we detected a negative link between narcissism and emotional contagion in response to experimentally induced positive affect. In an online study ( N = 195), narcissism was negatively linked to experimentally ind…

  • Narcissistic Tendencies Among Actors: Craving for Admiration, But Not at the Cost of Others

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Boris Egloff et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2015

    Building on a two-dimensional reconceptualization of grandiose narcissism, we investigated how narcissistic admiration (the tendency toward agentic self-promotion) and rivalry (the tendency toward other derogation) are related to acting. Study 1 ( N = 583) showed that acting students scored higher on narcissistic admiration than students with other majors, but at the same time, the acting students scored lower on rivalry. In Study 2 ( N = 283), w…

  • Antecedents, Consequences, and Mechanisms: On the Longitudinal Interplay Between Academic Self‐Enhancement and Psychological Adjustment

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Anne K Reitz et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2015

    We investigated the reciprocal associations between academic self‐enhancement and key indicators of intra‐ and interpersonal adjustment as well as the role of self‐esteem as a mediator. This longitudinal study involved three assessments in a sample of 709 German children and adolescents ( M age = 11.83; 54% female) over the course of one academic year. We assessed self‐reported subjective well‐being as an indicator of intrapersonal adjustment and…

  • Who is open to a narcissistic romantic partner? The roles of sensation seeking, trait anxiety, and similarity

    Open Access•Michael P Grosz, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 34

  • Affective contingencies in the affiliative domain: Physiological assessment, associations with the affiliation motive, and prediction of behavior

    Michael Dufner, Ruben C Arslan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2015•Cited by: 6

    According to classical motive disposition theory, individuals differ in their propensity to derive pleasure from affiliative experiences. This propensity is considered a core process underlying the affiliation motive and a pervasive cause of motivated behavior. In this study, we tested these assumptions. We presented participants with positive affiliative stimuli and used electromyography to record changes in facial muscular activity that are ind…

  • Double dissociation between implicit and explicit affiliative motives: A closer look at socializing behavior in dyadic interactions

    Open Access•Birk Hagemeyer, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 11

  • Narcissism and romantic relationships: The differential impact of narcissistic admiration and rivalry

    Stefanie N Wurst, Stefanie Wurst et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 25

    Narcissism is known to be related to romantic success in short-term contexts (dating, early stage relationships) but also to problems in long-term committed relationships. We propose that these diverging romantic outcomes of narcissism can be explained by differential associations with agentic versus antagonistic dimensions of grandiose narcissism: Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry. Both dimensions serve the central narcissistic goal of gaining…

  • Puffed-up but shaky selves: State self-esteem level and variability in narcissists

    Katharina Geukes, Steffen Nestler et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 17

    Different theoretical conceptualizations characterize grandiose narcissists by high, yet fragile self-esteem. Empirical evidence, however, has been inconsistent, particularly regarding the relationship between narcissism and self-esteem fragility (i.e., self-esteem variability). Here, we aim at unraveling this inconsistency by disentangling the effects of two theoretically distinct facets of narcissism (i.e., admiration and rivalry) on the two as…

  • Is accurate, positive, or inflated self-perception most advantageous for psychological adjustment? A competitive test of key hypotheses

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2018•Cited by: 12•References: 3

    Empirical research on the (mal-)adaptiveness of favorable self-perceptions, self-enhancement, and self-knowledge has typically applied a classical null-hypothesis testing approach and provided mixed and even contradictory findings. Using data from 5 studies (laboratory and field, total N = 2,823), we used an information-theoretic approach combined with Response Surface Analysis to provide the first competitive test of 6 popular hypotheses: that m…

  • Enhanced versus simply positive: A new condition-based regression analysis to disentangle effects of self-enhancement from effects of positivity of self-view

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2018•Cited by: 4

    Despite a large body of literature and ongoing refinements of analytical techniques, research on the consequences of self-enhancement (SE) is still vague about how to define SE effects, and empirical results are inconsistent. In this paper, we point out that part of this confusion is due to a lack of conceptual and methodological differentiation between effects of individual differences in how much people enhance themselves (SE) and in how positi…

  • Self-Enhancement and Psychological Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Jochen E Gebauer et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2019

    This article advances the debate about costs and benefits of self-enhancement (the tendency to maintain unrealistically positive self-views) with a comprehensive meta-analytic review (299 samples, N = 126,916). The review considers relations between self-enhancement and personal adjustment (life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, depression), and between self-enhancement and interpersonal adjustment (informant reports of domain-gener…

  • Revealing Subgroups That Differ in Common and Distinctive Variation in Multi-Block Data: Clusterwise Sparse Simultaneous Component Analysis

    Open Access•Shuai Yuan, Kim De Roover et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2019•References: 5

    Social and behavioral studies more and more often yield multi-block data, which consist of novel blocks of data (e.g., data from wearable devices) and traditional blocks of data (e.g., survey data) collected from the same sample. Multi-block data offer researchers valuable insights into complex social mechanisms, where several influences act together. Yet such mechanisms are likely to differ among subgroups. Hence, fully revealing the composite m…

  • Can other-derogation be beneficial? Seeing others as low in agency can lead to an agentic reputation in newly formed face-to-face groups

    Richard Rau, Steffen Nestler et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Whenever groups form, members readily and intuitively judge each other's agentic characteristics (e.g., self-confidence or assertiveness). We tested the hypothesis that perceiving others as low in these characteristics triggers agentic interpersonal behavior among perceivers, which benefits their own reputation in terms of agency. We analyzed data from a longitudinal field study (Study 1, n = 109), a multiwave laboratory study (Study 2, n = 311),…

  • The End of a Stereotype: Only Children Are Not More Narcissistic Than People With Siblings

    Open Access•Michael Dufner, Mitja D Back et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2020

    The current research dealt with the stereotype that only children are more narcissistic than people with siblings. We first investigated the prevalence of this stereotype. In an online study (Study 1, N = 556), laypeople rated a typical only child and a typical person with siblings on narcissistic admiration and narcissistic rivalry, the two subdimensions of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire. They ascribed both higher admirati…

  • Self‐esteem change during the transition from university to work

    Open Access•Anne K Reitz, Patrick E Shrout et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2020

    OBJECTIVE: The current study examined whether the transition from university to work, a major developmental milestone in young adulthood, was related to stability and change in self-esteem. METHOD: Self-esteem was assessed in the last year of their master's program (T1) of 163 27-year old students and 14 months later, when they had graduated and half of them had started a full-time job (T2). Daily diaries were used to assess the occurrence of ach…

  • What do highly narcissistic people think and feel about (their) intelligence

    Open Access•Marcin Zajenkowski, Anna Z Czarna et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2020

    OBJECTIVE: The current research comprehensively examined how grandiose and vulnerable narcissism are linked to intelligence and intelligence-related beliefs and emotions. METHOD: In four studies (total N = 1,141), we tested the associations between both forms of narcissism, subjectively and objectively assessed intelligence, basic personality traits, test-related stress, beliefs about intelligence, and well-being. RESULTS: Both forms of narcissis…

  • Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions

    Open Access•Julie C Driebe, Morgan J Sidari et al.•ARTICLE•Evolution and Human Behavior•2021

  • The true role that suppressor effects play in condition-based regression analysis: None. A reply to Fiedler (2021)

    Sarah Humberg, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•References: 2

    Condition-based regression analysis (CRA) is a statistical method for testing self-enhancement effects. That is, CRA indicates whether, in a set of empirical data, people with higher values on the directed discrepancy self-view S minus reality criterion R (i.e., S-R) tend to have higher values on some outcome variable (e.g., happiness). In a critical comment, Fiedler (2021) claims that CRA yields inaccurate conclusions in data with a suppressor e…

  • Narcissism and partner-enhancement at different relationship stages

    Open Access•Anna Z Czarna, Magdalena Śmieja et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 70

    Partner-enhancement refers to perceiving the romantic partner more positively than one’s own self. Partner-enhancement often varies as a function of relationship duration: It is stronger in the earlier than later stage of a relationship. We asked whether narcissism moderates the association between relationship duration and partner-enhancement. We conducted three studies, with two testing participants individually (N1 = 70; N2 = 412) and the thir…

  • Positivity in peer perceptions over time: Personality explains variation at zero-acquaintance, popularity explains differential change

    Richard Rau, Erika N Carlson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•Cited by: 1

    People have characteristic ways of perceiving others' personalities. When judging others on several traits, some perceivers tend to form globally positive and others tend to form globally negative impressions. These differences, often termed perceiver effects, have mostly been conceptualized as a static construct that taps perceivers' personal stereotypes about the average other. Here, we assessed perceiver effects repeatedly in small groups of s…

  • Affective contingencies of narcissism

    Stathis Grapsa, Eddie Brummelman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2022•Cited by: 2

    123). Results indicated that narcissism was linked to increased affective reactivity to power, and this pattern was present for both admiration and rivalry. Narcissism was unrelated to affective reactivity to affiliation, with an important exception: Individuals with higher levels of narcissistic rivalry exhibited decreased reactivity toward satisfactions and increased reactivity toward frustrations of affiliation. Results were more robust for se…

  • Do Agency and Communion Explain the Relationship Between Perceiver and Target Effects in Interpersonal Perception? A Meta-Analysis on Generalized Reciprocity

    Open Access•Titus Schauf, Michael Dufner et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2023

    This meta-analysis examines generalized reciprocity, that is, the relationship between how people perceive others and how they are perceived by others. It tests the hypothesis that generalized reciprocity varies as a function of the content domain under investigation. Generalized reciprocity for attributes with primarily communal content (e.g., friendliness) was hypothesized to be more positive than generalized reciprocity for attributes with pri…

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