Grandiose narcissists (individuals with a tendency to be self-focused, egotistical, and vain) overwhelmingly desire celebrity status. Here, we examined the conditions underlying narcissists' fame motivation. In Study 1, we assessed participants' desire to become a social media user who attained high status, tried to attain status but failed, or had no status-attainment goal. In Study 2, we assessed how participants' self-perceived similarity to high-status targets (e.g., Hollywood/social media celebrities) influences their desire to become them. We found that participants reporting high narcissism were most motivated to become successful social media celebrities, disliking people who tried to attain status but failed more than they disliked people who had no goal for fame (Study 1). Moreover, narcissists emulated high-status targets only when they felt similar (vs. dissimilar) to them (Study 2). Thus, narcissists do not perceive all fame as equally desirable and only express a desire for fame when it is a...

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宏大的自恋者有选择地寻求地位

宏大的自恋者（倾向于自我聚焦，自负和虚荣的个人）绝大多数都希望获得名人身份。在这里，我们研究了自恋者成名动机的潜在条件。在研究1中，我们评估了参与者成为社交媒体用户的愿望，这些社交媒体用户获得了很高的地位，试图获得地位但失败了，或者没有达到目标的目标。在研究2中，我们评估了参与者与高地位目标（例如好莱坞/社交媒体名人）的自我感知相似性如何影响他们成为他们的愿望。我们发现，报告自恋的参与者最有动机成为成功的社交媒体名人，他们不喜欢试图获得地位但失败的人比不喜欢没有成名目标的人（研究1）。此外，自恋者只在他们觉得自己与目标相似时（而不是相似时）才模仿目标高的人（研究2）。因此，自恋者不会将所有名望都视为同等可取，而只是在成名后才表达对名望的渴望。