title: There is an "I" in TEAM: narcissism and social loafing.
abstract: We investigated narcissism as a moderator of social loafing on a physical performance task. High and low narcissistic individuals twice performed a cycling task in same-sex teams of three: once when identifiability was low; and once when identifiability was high. A significant interaction between narcissism and identifiability was revealed, F(1, 40) = 4.09, p < .05, eta2 = .09 for performance. Follow-up tests indicated that high narcissists' performance significantly increased with greater identifiability, whereas low narcissists displayed no such performance differences. Results suggested that this effect was due to an increase in narcissists' on-task effort (ratings of perceived exertion and heart rate) when they knew that their performance was to be identified.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance, Bangor University, Gwynedd, UK. t.woodman@bangor.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woodman
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Lew
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: Nichola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Callow
authors.forename: Catherine H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009289:Narcissism; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult