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    Moral grandstanding, narcissism, and self-reported responses to the COVID-19 crisis
    with Joshua B. Grubbs, Brandon Warmke, and Justin Tosi
    Journal of Research in Personality 97 (104187): 1-10. 2022.
    The present study aimed to understand how status-oriented individual differences such as narcissistic antagonism, narcissistic extraversion, and moral grandstanding motivations may have longitudinally predicted both behavioral and social media responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Via YouGov, a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults was recruited in August of 2019 (N = 2,519; Mage = 47.5, SD = 17.8; 51.4% women) and resampled in May of 2020, (N = 1,533). Results in…Read more
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    Moral grandstanding and political polarization: A multi-study consideration
    with Joshua B. Grubbs, Brandon Warmke, and Justin Tosi
    Journal of Research in Personality 88. 2020.
    The present work posits that social motives, particularly status seeking in the form of moral grandstanding, are likely at least partially to blame for elevated levels of affective polarization and ideological extremism in the U.S. In Study 1, results from both undergraduates (N = 981; Mean age = 19.4; SD = 2.1; 69.7% women) and a cross-section of U.S. adults matched to 2010 census norms (N = 1,063; Mean age = 48.20, SD = 16.38; 49.8% women) indicated that prestige-motived grandstanding was cons…Read more