A recent study published in Personality and Individual Differences found that not all narcissists think alike. Specifically, grandiose and vulnerable narcissists differ significantly in their metacognitive abilities. “As a field, we’re still trying to figure out how much, if at all, our personalities might be related to the ways we think and process information. On a superficial level, I think most people would probably expect that the two are related. But the bulk of the research evidence so far is mixed,” said Shane Littrell (@MetacogniShane), PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. “We previously published a paper that looked at which kinds of thinking styles were associated with the two major types of narcissism. Narcissism is a personality cluster made up of varying levels of 3 core Big Five personality attributes: antagonism (low agreeableness), agentic extraversion, and neuroticism. From these, we get two main types of narcissism: grandiose narcissism – the more stereotypical type, where the person is exploitative, domineering, and prone to …