Collective narcissism is belief that the ingroup’s exceptionality is insufficiently appreciated by others (Golec de Zavala, Dyduch-Hazar, & Lantos, 2019). Collective narcissism is motivated by the investment of an undermined sense of self-importance into the belief in the ingroup’s entitlement to privilege. Collective narcissism lies in the heart of populist rhetoric. People endorsing the collective narcissistic belief are prone to biased perceptions of intergroup situations and to conspiratorial thinking. They retaliate to imagined provocations against the ingroup but often overlook real threats. They are prejudiced and hostile. Deficits in emotional regulation, hostile attribution bias, and vindictiveness seem to lie behind the robust link between collective narcissism and intergroup hostility.

The concept of collective narcissism was developed in collaboration between political psychologists, political scientists, clinical psychologists and conflict resolution practitioners at the University of Pennsylvania’s Solomon Asch Center For Study Of Ethnopolitical Conflict notably Roy Eidelson, Nuwan Jayawickerme and David Goodwin. It was then studied in collaboration with students at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. This website provides a comprehensive overview of our past and current work on collective narcissism as well as information about other research centres that carry on working on this concept.

In PrejudiceLab we are investigating:

• - How people who hold collective narcissistic belief about the ingroup react when their group is being excluded by other group;
• - Whether mindful gratitude mediation reduces hostility among people who endorse collective narcissistic belief about the ingroup;
• - Whether people who hold collective narcissistic belief about the ingroup reap hedonistic reward when punish ingroup’s offenders;
• - How collective narcissism is associated with vulnerable and grandiose narcissism;
• - How intergroup threat affects collective narcissism.
• - Whether experiencing kama muta, feeling touched by the sense of oneness, facilitates intergroup helping.

Collective Narcissism on Wikpedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_narcissism