Hi everyone,
The Boston Globe (Sunday, May 26) reported on an article by Nevicka, B et al., in the European Journal of Social Psychology entitled: “Uncertainty Enhances the Preference for Narcissistic Leaders”. The Globe summarizes:
“In several experiments that presented participants with business situations involving certainty or uncertainty, participants overwhelmingly preferred narcissistic leaders when confronted with uncertainty—even though such leaders were rated as more selfish, arrogant, manipulative, and less empathic—but not when there was certainty.”
By extension: given the fluctuating level of certainty/uncertainty in life, is it any wonder why a genetic basis for narcissism has persisted in humans?
Richard
