Narcissistic Tendencies Among Actors: Craving for Admiration, But Not at the Cost of Others

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 447-454

  Dufner, Michael ^a   Egloff, Boris ^b   Hausmann, Christoph M ^b   Wendland, Lisa Maria ^c   Neyer, Franz J ^d   Back, Mitja D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

acting; admiration; grandiosity; narcissism; self presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926314734     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614564224     Document Type: Article

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