Background. The dark side of human character has been conceptualized in the Dark Triad Model: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. These three dark traits are often measured using single long instruments for each one of the traits. Nevertheless, there is a necessity of short and valid personality measures in psychological research. As an independent research group, we replicated the f...

In the past decade, research on dark triad of personality (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) has demonstrated a strong relationship to number socially aversive moral judgments such as sacrificial utilitarian decisions in dilemmas. This study widens scope this program investigates association between traits anti-natalist views, i.e., views holding that procreation is morally wrong. ...

Dark triad (DT) refers to a set of antisocial and self-interested personality traits (Machiavellianism, sub-clinical psychopathy narcissism). The nocturnal cognitive niche hypothesis suggests that the DT was advantageous in because it enables exploitative strategies would be linked with an evening-oriented chronotype as part fast life history strategy. In present self-report study (N = 300), th...

Abstract Gratitude promotes prosociality and long-term reciprocal relationships. The Dark Triad is associated with maladaptive interactions in their social interpersonal present study aimed at understanding whether these individuals experience gratitude state trait levels, when presented situations that differentially benefit them. Triad, specifically psychopathy Machiavellianism, negatively gr...

We reviewed studies of the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits--Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy-and meta-analytically examined their implications for job performance and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Relations among the DT traits and behaviors were extracted from original reports published between 1951 and 2011 of 245 independent samples (N = 43,907). We found that reducti...

In past years, research and corporate scandals have evidenced the destructive effects of the dark triad at work, consisting of narcissism (extreme self-centeredness), psychopathy (lack of empathy and remorse) and Machiavellianism (a sense of duplicity and manipulativeness). The dark triad dimensions have typically been conceptualized as stable personality traits, ignoring the accumulating evide...

Narcissism can be expressed in grandiose or vulnerable forms. We examined whether positive psychological states (defined by the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) and the Diener Satisfaction With Life (SWL) scales) assisted differentiation relative to general personality traits and the ‘‘the Dark Triad’’ (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism, measured by the D12 and Short Dark Triad (SD3...

Abstract: This study examined correlations between moral value judgments on a 17item Moral Intuition Survey (MIS), and participant scores on the Short-D3 “Dark Triad” Personality Inventory – a measure of three related “dark and socially destructive” personality traits: Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. 567 participants (302 male, 257 female, 2 transgendered; median age 28) were rec...