Comment by theconstellinguist on 01/02/2024 at 22:15 UTC

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View submission: Collective narcissism is still pathology; the fallacy of referencing normative behavior in sick societies in psychological defenses against international failure, collective male narcissism and sexism, threatedness of male narcissists to women leaders and their deeper links to their societies

• *Part 2c**

• *Proud dissemination of sexist beliefs as a way to achieve social reward by women was seen in narcissistic populations (national narcissism, gendered narcissism, and religious narcissism)**

1. National collective narcissism, national in-group satisfaction, as well as benevolent and hostile sexism were higher among participants who declared intention to vote for the conservative ruling *Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc* than participants who declared intention to vote for centrist and leftist parties. This may explain why some Polish men *and* women publicly and passionately express sexist beliefs that undermine women and maintain gender-based hierarchy (Davies 2016[1]).

2. **Women high on national collective narcissism are likely to support oppressive policies regarding women,** like women representing the Life and Family Foundation, a proponent of the “Stop abortion” bill (Shukla and Klosok 2020[2])—the most restrictive abortion law penalizing any case of abortion—or those women who publicly undermine proponents of reproductive women’s rights as “fans of killing babies” (Davies 2016[3], para 13).

• *In-group satisfaction vs. in group narcissism was associated with higher self-esteem and that higher self-esteem (where genuine) predicted lower narcissism.**

1: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01193-3#ref-CR25

2: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01193-3#ref-CR106

3: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01193-3#ref-CR25

1. ***This meant they were more likely to be democratic, take criticism, and improve in healthy ways. This can predict that collective narcissism may be a pride-based sunk fallacy defense to in-group dissatisfaction, where people are not actually satisfied with their nation, but have invested too much in it (look at Trump fraud victims who kept supporting Trump, while collective narcissism skyrocketing as a defense for the crime they went through at their alleged in-group’s hands)***

2. The present results align with previous work indicating that individuals with high in-group satisfaction may feel in a position to act on behalf of their in-group to enhance it toward greater benefit of all members (Amiot and Sansfaçon 2011[4]; Jans et al. 2012[5]; Legault and Amiot 2014[6]).

• *Caveat**

4: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01193-3#ref-CR6

5: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01193-3#ref-CR69

6: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01193-3#ref-CR83

1. National and religious identities in Poland are closely related. This is not the case in America except in some areas (areas close to Mexico, for example).

2. Russian Orthodox and being Russian is another good example that can exacerbate national narcissism and why Putin, a homicidal narcissist, relies on the church so strongly to direct what Russia does.

• *In-group satisfied women** vs. women who identify as Polish without qualification and without hubris (collective narcissism**) were more likely to affect Poland to become less sexist rather than buying into it and making it more so through aggressive unexamined pride in sexist beliefs** (the “inerrant” country, very similar to the “inerrant” God and way of religious fundamentalism).

1. **However, patriotic Polish women, in contrast to women who endorse Polish collective narcissism, actively oppose sexism and can capitalize on their positive identification with the national group to develop emotional resilience while challenging gender inequality.**

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