In this study, we investigate how personal experiences about shameful events are described in face‐to‐face social interaction, and how these stories differ between participants who have either high or low levels of narcissistic personality traits. The dataset consists of 22 dyadic conversations where the participants describe events where they felt ashamed of themselves. We found the narratives to vary in terms of five dimensions. With narcissistic individuals, the default narrative tended to exhibit a cluster of characteristics that gather at one end of these dimensions: (1) weak expressions of shame; (2) located in the story‐world; (3) low level of reflexivity as well as; (4) responsibility of the described event; and (5) a general level of description. We discuss the findings in relation to sociological and psychological theories of shame and suggest that individuals with narcissistic personality traits are more inclined to use suppressive conversational practices in their treatment of shame, thus providing a “window” to these interactional practices.

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社交互动中的羞耻：自恋特质高或低的参与者对羞耻经历的描述

在这项研究中，我们调查了如何在面对面的社交互动中描述有关可耻事件的个人经历，以及这些故事在自恋人格特质水平高或低的参与者之间有何不同。该数据集由 22 个二元对话组成，参与者描述了他们感到羞耻的事件。我们发现叙述在五个维度上有所不同。对于自恋的人来说，默认的叙述往往表现出聚集在这些维度一端的一系列特征：（1）羞耻的表达较弱；(2) 位于故事世界中；(3) 反身性水平低；(4) 所述事件的责任；(5) 一般水平的描述。我们讨论了与羞耻的社会学和心理学理论相关的研究结果，并表明具有自恋人格特质的个体更倾向于在治疗羞耻时使用压抑性对话实践，从而为这些互动实践提供了一个“窗口”。