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Do Narcissism Levels Affect Conflict Resolution When Their Ego Is Threatened? An Experiment, Laura E. Harper
Do Narcissism Levels Affect Conflict Resolution When Their Ego Is Threatened? An Experiment, Laura E. Harper
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The present experimental study, examined the influence of ego-threat on participant aggression levels, and investigated whether Narcissism moderated this relationship. A sample of N= 54 undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to receive either positive or negative feedback on their writing abilities from what they were told was a co-participant, with the negative feedback condition serving as the ego-threat condition. Afterwards, participants responded to a hypothetical conflict scenario involving the imagined co-participant and completed a self-report measure of Narcissism online. Results showed that being assigned to the ego-threat condition resulted in more aggressive responses to the conflict scenario, increased use of …