关键词: 社会排斥, 显性自恋, 隐性自恋, 外显敌意解释偏向, 内隐敌意解释偏向

Abstract:

This study investigated the effects of social exclusion on explicit and implicit hostile interpretive biases in overt and covert narcissists through two experiments. In Experiment 1, we employed ambiguous social scenarios to compare responses under the social exclusion scenario versus the acceptance scenario. Results revealed that overt narcissists exhibited stronger explicit hostile interpretive biases in the social exclusion scenario, whereas covert narcissists exhibited no significant differences between the two scenarios. Experiment 2 utilized a sentence completion task to assess implicit biases, demonstrating that both types of narcissism exhibited heightened implicit hostile interpretations in the social exclusion scenario compared to the acceptance scenario. The findings demonstrated that both types of narcissists exhibited significantly more pronounced implicit hostile interpretive biases in the social exclusion scenario compared to the acceptance scenario. These results suggest that social exclusion impacts the explicit and implicit hostile interpretive biases of overt narcissists. The explicit hostile interpretive bias of covert narcissists is unaffected by social exclusion. However, their implicit hostile interpretive bias is more pronounced in the social exclusion scenario than in the acceptance scenario.

Key words: social exclusion, overt narcissism, covert narcissism, explicit hostile interpretation bias, implicit hostile interpretation bias