There are several displays commonly labeled as body modifications, including piercings, scarification, tattoos, cutting, etc. In this study, we were focused on one distinct form of modification, namely tattoos. The current exploratory study investigated the connection between modifications (BM) and Dark Triad personality for a sample 77 university students with BM, compared to control group non...

Past research found various immoral conducts that people with higher levels of the Dark Triad traits are more inclined to engage in, including infidelity. Marital dissatisfaction has also emerged as a factor unfaithful behaviors. However, psychological dynamics effects these personality and relational factors on infidelity less clear. This study examined potential mediational role use moral dis...

In recent years, online dating websites, applications, and social media have become increasingly popular tools for finding romantic and/or sexual partners. Individual differences in personality traits predict the use of websites applications also influence motives their use. Previous work regarding ...

Most research on the development of personality traits like Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) focuses local effects parenting style or attachment, but people live in a larger society that may set stage for any effects. Here we paired nation-level data from 49 nations with several milieu indicators (e.g., life expectancy, homicide rates) three timepoints (and chang...

This research explores the Dark Triad traits in 18 cultures from Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. We examined relationships among traits, as measured by SD3, with gender, age, social status, two personality models, HEXACO Zuckerman’s alternative five factor model (AFFM). There were 10,298 participants (5,410 women 4,888 men) a mean age of 40.31 ( SD = 17.32) years old. Between 6% 16% variance...

Background. The concept of the Light Triad as direct opposite Dark Triad, was developed to describe a healthy, prosperous personality and is operationalized in Scale (LTS), which measures three “light” traits: faith humanity, or belief fundamental nature human goodness; humanism, worth dignity each person; Kantianism, treating people self-valuable individuals. original LTS psychometrically soun...

Who likes dark politicians? This article investigates whether voters showcasing populist attitudes are more likely to appreciate candidates that score high on personality traits (narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) low agreeableness. intuition is tested a large-scale, assessing how perceive the likeability of top having competed in elections worldwide. The investigation leverages evi...

Facilitating looking for a new partner or hook-up, dating apps are highly popular. Explaining their continuous use and the reflection of personality on behavior we investigated question whether classically bright rather dark traits influence use, combining behavioral questionnaire data. In analysis Big Five Dark Triad were included compared; additionally, motives love sex current relationship s...

It has been estimated that narcissism, machiavellism and psychopathy, named as the dark triad personality traits, will have a strong effect upon career planning of employees, their sense belonging to organization perceptions organizational politics in accordance with findings literature. In this respect, present study mainly aims determine mediating role employees' traits plans. The participant...

This study examined whether the dark triad personality traits were related to experience of self-disgust, and these relationships mediated by emotion regulation deficits. A sample (N = 620) individuals completed measures regulation, self-disgust. Correlational analysis determined that self-disgust was significantly increased psychopathy Machiavellianism, but not narcissism. Parallel multiple me...