Narcissism is a prevalent personality trait associated with low concern for others and high self-focus. Congruently, reduced automatic imitation in narcissists was reported in one study (23 participants), but it was not replicated in another (57 participants). In this study, 100 participants completed the previously used narcissism and automatic imitation measures but here along with a visual perspective-taking task allowing to dissociate 4 profiles of perspective-takers. While we confirmed a non-replication at whole-sample level, we did find a reliable negative association between narcissism and automatic imitation among egocentric perspective-takers, that is, characterized as highly self-centered when tasked to adopt someone else's point of view. Our findings shed a new light on whether narcissistic individuals are less sensitive to others, highlight the importance of considering performance-based individual differences within the narcissistic personality, and revisit the recent claim that automatic imitation poorly relates to social functioning by presenting a theoretical framework that questions the sensitivity of the automatic imitation task.

自恋是一种普遍的人格特质，与他人的关注度低和自我专注度高有关。一致地，一项研究（23名参与者）中报告了自恋者的自动模仿减少，但另一项研究（57名参与者）中没有重复。在这项研究中，有100名参与者完成了以前使用的自恋和自动模仿措施，但在此同时完成了一个视觉取景任务，可以分离4个取景器。尽管我们在整个样本水平上确认了无重复性，但我们确实发现自恋和以自我为中心的观点接受者之间的自动模仿之间存在可靠的负相关关系，也就是说，当任务是接受别人的观点时，这种联系具有高度的自我中心性。我们的发现为自恋型个体是否对他人不那么敏感提供了新的思路，