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In a 1998 experiment, insulted participants with high plain self-esteem scores showed no extra aggression, but insulted participants who scored high in narcissism blasted their critic with dramatically louder noise, a finding researchers call threatened egotism
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In a 1998 experiment, insulted participants with high plain self-esteem scores showed no extra aggression, but insulted participants who scored high in narcissism blasted their critic with dramatically louder noise, a finding researchers call threatened egotism
In 1998, the psychologists Brad Bushman and Roy Baumeister ran an experiment that directly tested a popular idea: that people who lash out or dominate a room are secretly suffering from low self-esteem. Participants first filled out a standard self-esteem questionnaire and a separate measure of narcissism. Then each one wrote a short essay, and a supposed fellow participant, actually a research assistant, gave it either a mild compliment or a ha…
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