Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Understanding individual differences in metacognitive ability may provide novel insights into how we think about ourown thinking. Past research has revealed individual differences in the extent to which grandiose and vulnerable narcissistsare metacognitively miscalibrated with respect to cognitive ability (Littrell, Fugelsang, & Risko, 2019). Building off ofthis work, we present a study examining the relations between trait narcissism across different cognitive tasks (e.g., verbalability, memory) and measures of metacognitive ability (e.g., bias, relative accuracy). Results indicate that while grandioseand vulnerable narcissists did not differ with respect to performance on cognitive tasks, they did significantly differ in theirperformance on certain metacognitive metrics. These results contribute to both our understanding of narcissism, individualdifferences in metacognitive ability, and the relation between different measures of metacognitive ability.