We had the pleasure of delivering a symposium, “National collective narcissism: vengeful hostility towards minorities and ambivalence towards the European Union”, during the 42nd Annual Meeting of International Society of Political Psychology, July 12-15 in Lisbon.
In this symposium, we discussed some of the consequences of collective narcissism for intergroup relations. We show that collective narcissism predicts (1) acceptance of hate crime towards minorities, (2) vindictive aggression towards threatening or excluding outgroups and (3) ambivalent attitudes towards super-national organizations, such as the European Union.
Presentation 1
Katarzyna Hamer (IPPAS), Jennifer Paterson (Teesside University), Marek Drogosz (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities), Sam McFarland (WKU): Psychological determinants of outgroup reactions to hate crimes: the role of collective narcissism and human identification.
Katarzyna shared results of her research on hate crimes towards Muslims. Her experiments revealed that participants high in collective narcissism showed stronger schadenfreude and support for Muslims’ attackers despite the conditions they were assigned to.
Presentation 2
Karolina Dyduch-Hazar (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw), Blazej Mrozinski (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw), Marzena Cypryanska (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw) & Agnieszka Golec de Zavala (Goldsmiths, University of London; SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Poznan; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)): Opposite unique relationships of collective narcissism and ingroup satisfaction on intergroup aggression via hedonistic beliefs about revenge.
Karolina, our SWPS University PhD Student, shared results of her research, investigating opposite unique associations of two alternative beliefs about the in-group: Collective narcissism and in-group satisfaction with aggression against outgroups via belief in the hedonistic function of revenge. Results of three studies consistently showed that collective narcissism was positively associated with belief the “revenge is sweet” and, therefore, positively associated with intergroup aggression, whereas in-group satisfaction was negatively associated with belief in the hedonistic function of revenge, and, as a result, negatively associated with aggression against outgroups.
Read more about my research on collective narcissism and in-group satisfaction!
Presentation 3
Rita Guerra (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL), Agnieszka Golec de Zavala (Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Poznan; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)), Constantine Sedikides (University of Southampton), Tim Wildschut (University of Southampton) & Georgios Abakoumkin (University of Thessaly): We are great and Europe needs us: Collective narcissism and European identification, a cross-national study.
Rita shared results of her research project regarding collective narcissism and European Union identification. In all fours studies conducted in United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal and Greece, collective narcissism was positively related to E.U. identification by increased feelings of being indispensably to define E.U. identity.
Presentation 4
Dorottya Lantos (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences; Goldsmiths, University of London), Agnieszka Golec de Zavala (Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Poznan; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), David Chester (Virgina Commonwealth University), Mark E. Lauckner ((Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), Arno Villringer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), Magdalena Mazurkiewicz (University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Warsaw), Kamil Wieteska (University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Poznan), Veronica A. Witte (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences): Counteracting the adverse effects of group-based exclusion in collective narcissists.
Dorottya, our Goldsmiths University PhD Student, shared the results of her research on intergroup exclusion and collective narcissism that she carried out, in cooperation with Max Planck Institute in Germany. People who endorse collective narcissistic belief about the in-group reported less distress and were less likely to show retaliatory and displaced hostility after intergroup exclusion in the relaxation condition, in comparison to the mindfulness condition.
Read more about Dorottya’s research stay at Max Planck Institute in Leipzig!
We had the pleasure of welcoming Chris Federico from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as our Discussant. Thank you for your insightful comments and summarizing our work!
See you next year in Berlin!
