Overall the findings are unsurprising, but the insight into narcissism is pretty interesting. Narcissists identify with heroic qualities but only superficially.
The only exception was narcissism, which showed a weak positive correlation with similarity to heroes, potentially reflecting narcissistic individuals’ admiration for heroic qualities like leadership and recognition. Interestingly, this wasn’t the case for narcissism and descriptions of archetypal heroes (stripped of specific narrative contexts, focusing solely on the values and motivations associated with each archetype), just heroes from popular culture, which might suggest that higher narcissism is related to feeling similar to fictional heroes’ presentations in stories more than relating to archetypal heroic attitudes.
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Overall the findings are unsurprising, but the insight into narcissism is pretty interesting. Narcissists identify with heroic qualities but only superficially.