The Psychology of Collective Narcissism: Insights from Social Identity Theory [Paperback]

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Psychology of collective narcissism

1. How does narcissism become collective?
2. Dark side of ingroup love: Collective narcissism and ingroup identification
3. National narcissism, nationalism, and patriotism
4. Collective narcissism, intergroup threat, and intergroup hate
5. Collective narcissism and prejudice: Politics of hate
6. Collective narcissism and social exclusion
7. Collective narcissism of populism
8. Revolutionaries in reverse: Collective narcissism and political orientation
9. Collective narcissism and pursuit of equality
10. To the point of irrationality: Collective narcissism and conspiracy theories

The Psychology of Collective Narcissism is a ground-breaking text that presents a new theory of collective narcissism, a belief that exaggerated greatness of ones own group should be but is not sufficiently appreciated by others.

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has contributed to several diverse research areas, including psychological predictors of political conservatism, the role of motivated cognition in intergroup conflict, social identity, narcissism, collective narcissisms, and mindfulness. The breadth of her work is not only seen in scientific contributions, but also in her engagement to use psychological scl3†