This article advances the debate about costs and benefits of self-enhancement (the
tendency to maintain unrealistically positive self-views) with a comprehensive meta-analytic …

This meta-analytic review investigated the development of narcissism across the life span,
by synthesizing the available longitudinal data on mean-level change and rank-order …

We propose a self-regulation model of grandiose narcissism. This model illustrates an
interconnected set of processes through which narcissists (ie, individuals with relatively high …

We present a process model that distinguishes 2 dimensions of narcissism: admiration and
rivalry. We propose that narcissists' overarching goal of maintaining a grandiose self is …

Past empirical studies relating narcissism to leadership have offered mixed results. This
study integrates prior research findings via meta‐analysis to make 4 contributions to theory …

The pursuit of social rank is a recurrent and pervasive challenge faced by individuals in all
human societies. Yet, the precise means through which individuals compete for social …

Drawing from clinical and organizational narcissism research, we develop a novel measure
of narcissistic rhetoric, investigating its prevalence in a sample of 1863 crowdfunding …

Although there has been increasing interest in dark personality traits in the organizational
sciences, these characteristics remain relatively understudied and somewhat …

How often and how strongly do people experience desires, to what extent do their desires
conflict with other goals, and how often and successfully do people exercise self-control to …

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a
new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life …