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

摘要：

通过两个实验考察社会排斥对显性自恋者与隐性自恋者在外显及内隐敌意解释偏向上的影响。实验1采用模糊情境法，设置社会排斥与接纳情境，考察不同类型自恋者的外显敌意解释偏向。结果显示，在社会排斥情境下显性自恋者表现出更显著的外显敌意解释偏向，而隐性自恋者在两种情境下没有差异。实验2采用句子补词任务，考察两类自恋者在两种情境下的内隐敌意解释偏向。结果发现，相较于接纳情境，两种类型自恋者在社会排斥情境下的内隐敌意解释偏向更为显著。结果表明，社会排斥情境会影响显性自恋者的外显与内隐敌意解释偏向。隐性自恋者的外显敌意解释偏向不受社会排斥所影响，但其内隐敌意解释偏向在社会排斥情境下要比在接纳情境下表现更为显著。

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