13 Facts About Collective narcissism

In social psychology, collective narcissism is the tendency to exaggerate the positive image and importance of a group to which one belongs.

Collective narcissism is related to vulnerable narcissism, and grandiose narcissism and to low self-esteem.

Collective narcissism is characterized by the members of a group holding an inflated view of their ingroup which requires constant external validation.

Collective narcissism can be exhibited by an individual on behalf of any social group or by a group as a whole.

Collective narcissism predicts retaliatory hostility to past, present, actual and imagined offences to the ingroup and negative attitudes towards groups perceived as threatening.

Collective narcissism predicts conspiracy thinking about secretive malevolent actions of outgroups.

In some cases, collective narcissism is an individual's idealization of the ingroup to which they belong, while in another the idealization of the group takes place at a more group-level, rather than an instillation within each individual member of the group.

Also, another perspective asserts that individual narcissism is related to collective narcissism exhibited by individual group members.

Post takes the view that collective narcissism is exhibited as a collection of individual narcissists, and discusses how this type of relationship emerges when a narcissistic charismatic leader, appeals to narcissistic "ideal-hungry" followers.

Collective narcissism has been shown to be a factor in intergroup aggression and bias.

Collective narcissism helps to explain unreasonable manifestations of retaliation between groups.

Collective narcissism is related to negativity between groups who share a history of distressing experiences.

In general, collective narcissism is most strongly manifested in groups that are "self-relevant", like religions, nationality, or ethnicity.