Different Types Of Narcissist Attention Bias

A number of studies suggest that different individuals to the same information or the same information to different individuals are large differences. Such differences in attentional bias has positive significance for the individual to adapt, it is not only beneficial to people’s survival and self-development, but also the basic needs of an individual life, to adapt to the modern complex environment. This study stempt to explore one of the most enigmatic constructs, narcissism.We present evidence that two main pathways can be distinguished in terms of the overall pattern of narcissism:one that is narcissistic personality trait, such as adaptability, subjective well-being and the narcissist’self-esteem,etc. Another that is based on behavioral characteristics of narcissists,such as aggressive, decision-making, attention and memory distortion behavior. The present study aimed at investigating the attention bias for the different types of narcissism and the components of bias (vigilance versus difficulty in disengagement).In Study1, we developed a emotional Stroop task with the purpose of measuring an attentional bias to emotional words for the different types of narcissists. Results indicated that people with overt narcissism experienced significantly more interference on positive words than negative words, whereas for people with covert narcissism experienced significantly more interference on negative words than positive words.In study2, Spatial cueing task were used to examine the mechanism of attentional for emotional information among individuals with different levels of overt and covert narcissism. Positive, negative or neutral pictures were used in spatial cueing task. Results revealed that highly overt narcissists exhibited significantly vigilance and difficulty in disengaging from positive pictures. Highly covert narcissists, on the other hand, exhibited significantly avoidance for negative pictures. From this data, it would appear that attentional bias may be a classical feature of narcissism. The limitations of the present study and future research directions are discussed.