2025/08/22 by Jiafang Chen, Barbara Nevicka, Astrid C. Homan +1 · 1 voice
Psychology · #Personality Traits and Psychology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
paper · doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104653
openalex publication_date 2025/08/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
While narcissistic individuals tend to exhibit more antisocial (rather than prosocial) behavior in social contexts and evaluate antisocial information more positively, it is unclear how they first come to select social information. This is important to understand as it has bearing on their subsequent behavior. We hypothesized that individuals higher (vs. lower) on antagonistic narcissism select less prosocial and more antisocial information. In two studies, we investigated how antagonistic narcissism affects one’s choice of news headlines. We also examined narcissists’ social motives, (affective) empathy, and sensation seeking as potential underlying mechanisms (S2). Higher antagonistic narcissism predicted selection of less prosocial (S1-S2) and more antisocial information (S1), both of which were explained by lower empathy and higher sensation seeking (S2).