Narcissism and emotional contagion : do narcissists "catch" the emotions of others?

doi:10.1177/1948550614559652

Narcissism and emotional contagion : do narcissists ...

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title:	Narcissism and emotional contagion : do narcissists "catch" the emotions of others?
author:	Czarna Anna , Wróbel Monika, Dufner Michael, Zeigler-Hill Virgil
Journal title:	Social Psychological & Personality Science
volume:	6
issue:	3
date of publication:	2015
pages:	318-324
ISSN:	1948-5506
eISSN:	1948-5514
DOI:	10.1177/1948550614559652
notes:	Na publikacji autorka podpisana: Anna Z. Czarna
language:	English
Journal language:	English
abstract in english:	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 ¼ 101), we detected a negative link between narcissism and emotional contagion in response to experimentally induced positive affect. In an online study (N ¼ 195), narcissism was negatively linked to experimentally induced emotional contagion regardless of valence. These findings indicate that individuals with high narcissism levels are apparently less prone to emotional contagion than individuals lower in narcissism. Hence, narcissists are less likely to "catch the emotions’" of others. Furthermore, by comparing experimental assessments of susceptibility to emotional contagion with subjective self-reports, we were able to study self-insight. Across both samples, self-insight was generally low, and individual differences in self-insight were unrelated to narcissism.
keywords in english:	narcissism, empathy, emotional contagion, mood
affiliation:	Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Psychologii
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper