Mind-reading and metacognition: Narcissism, not actual competence, predicts self-estimated ability
Mind-reading and metacognition: Narcissism, not actual competence, predicts self-estimated ability
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DOI：
10.1023/b:jonb.0000039649.20015.0e
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发表时间：
2004-09-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Kammrath, LK
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作者：
Ames, DR;Kammrath, LK
在本文中，我们研究了人们实际的人际敏感度（如他们识别欺骗和推断意图和情绪的能力）与他们对自己敏感度的感知之间的关系。和之前的学者一样，我们发现这种联系很弱或者根本不存在，而且大多数人高估了自己的社会判断力和读心术。然而，与之前的工作不同，我们展示了新的证据，表明是谁误解了它们的敏感性，以及为什么误解。我们发现，那些在社会判断和读心术方面表现最差的人，从根本上高估了自己的相对能力。我们还发现，这些自我估计的来源是自我膨胀的一般自恋倾向。我们讨论了两项研究的证据，一项涉及人际感知任务（IPT-15），另一项侧重于面对面谈判练习后对合作伙伴的推断。在这两种情况下，实际表现并不能预测自我评估的表现，但自恋却可以。
In this paper, we examine the relationship between people's actual interpersonal sensitivity (such as their ability to identify deception and to infer intentions and emotions) and their perceptions of their own sensitivity. Like prior scholars, we find the connection is weak or non-existent and that most people overestimate their social judgment and mind-reading skills. Unlike previous work, however, we show new evidence about who misunderstands their sensitivity and why. We find that those who perform the worst in social judgment and mind-reading radically overestimate their relative competence. We also find origins of these self-estimates in general narcissistic tendencies toward self-aggrandizement. We discuss evidence from two studies, one involving the Interpersonal Perception Task (the IPT-15) and another focusing on inferences about partners after a face-to-face negotiation exercise. In both cases, actual performance did not predict self-estimated performance but narcissism did.