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TUESDAY, Aug. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n
Narcissists don’t learn from their mistakes because they don’t acknowledge them, a new study shows.<\/p>\n
When faced with a poor outcome due to their decisions, most people ask, “What should I have done differently to avoid this outcome?” But a narcissist says, “No one could have seen this coming,” according to Oregon State University (OSU)-Cascades researchers.<\/p>\n
Narcissists also believe they are better and more deserving than others, study author Satoris Howes, a researcher at the OSU College of Business, said in a university news release.<\/p>\n
In the study, the investigators conducted a series of experiments with different groups of people, including students, employees and managers with significant experience in hiring.<\/p>\n
The study authors said that when narcissists predicted an outcome correctly, they felt it was more foreseeable than non-narcissists did, but when they predicted incorrectly, narcissists felt the outcome was less foreseeable versus non-narcissists.<\/p>\n
In both situations, narcissists didn’t feel the need to do something differently or to engage in self-analysis that might benefit them in future decisions, according to the report.<\/p>\n
“They’re falling prey to the hindsight bias, and they’re not learning from it when they make mistakes. And when they get things right, they’re still not learning,” Howes explained.<\/p>\n
The study was published online recently in the Journal of Management<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Everyone tends to engage in some level of self-protective thinking, where you attribute success to your own efforts but blame your failures on outside forces, and often blame other people’s failure on their own deficiencies, according to Howes.<\/p>\n
“But narcissists do this way more because they think they’re better than others,” she said. “They don’t take advice from other people; they don’t trust others’ opinions. \u2026 You can flat-out ask, ‘What should you have done differently?’ And it might be, ‘Nothing, it turned out; it was good.'”<\/p>\n
Narcissists are often promoted because they show great self-confidence, take credit for the successes of others and deflect blame from themselves when something goes wrong, Howes said.<\/p>\n
However, this can be damaging to an organization over time because of low morale among employees who work for the narcissist and because of the narcissist’s continuing bad decisions, she noted.<\/p>\n
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