Do others bring out the worst in narcissists? The ‘‘Others Exist for Me’’ illusion

Abstract

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. "-Roseanne Barr in an interview at Gear magazine, October 2000 The cognitive revolution gave social and personality psychology a heuristically useful metaphor, the central processing unit (CPU) (Foddy & Kashima, chap. 1, this volume). The CPU was considered a robust, powerful, and efficient controller of mental processes-so efficient, in fact, that it was assumed to process information about the self in a virtually identical manner as information about other persons, non-human animals, and inanimate objects (Ostrom, 1984). It was this one-controller-fits-all notion that permeated theorizing on the self in the late 1970s, 1980s, and even early 1990s. The assumption asserted the relative invariance both of the self as a cognitive structure (Greenwald & Banaffl, 1989; KihIstrom et al., 1988; Rogers, Kuiper, & Kirker, 1977) and of the sources of incoming in-

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