Telling Narcissists They Are Intelligent

What happens when you tell narcissists that they are intelligent? This study explores that question:

“Telling People They Are Intelligent Correlates with the Feeling of Narcissistic Uniqueness: The Influence of IQ Feedback on Temporary State Narcissism,” Marcin Zajenkowski [pictured here] and Gilles E. Gignac, Intelligence, vol. 89, November–December 2021, 101595. (Thanks to Abel Dean for bringing this to our attention.) The authors are at the University of Warsaw, Poland and the University of Western Australia.