Emotional processes underlying national narcissism
Within the current manuscript, we assumed that national narcissism should be linked to poor emotion recognition skills and negative emotionality. In a series of four mixed-methodology studies, we found positive relations between national narcissism and one's own impairment of emotion recognition, lower levels of facial emotion recognition, and higher levels of antagonistically oriented emotions. We also demonstrated that an inability to recognize emotions of others (characteristic for national narcissism) may, in turn, translate into dehumanization of in-group and out-group. By highlighting these relations, we argue that group defensiveness can be linked to a specific form of emotionality.
Authors
- Marta Marchlewska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2807-5189)
- Dagmara Szczepańska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6216-5773)
- Zuzanna Molenda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4950-865X)
- Radosław Rogoza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4983-9320)
- Dominika Maison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8946-7517)
- Marta Rogoza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8451-9015)
- Oliwia Maciantowicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3099-5956)
Institutions
- Institute of Psychology (PL)
- The Maria Grzegorzewska University (PL)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology (CZ)
- University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz (PL)
- University of Warsaw (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Published
- 2025-03-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2025.2479783
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.31