Despite Allport's early call to study personality as a coordinated system of traits within individual rather than separate traits, researchers often assume personality variables are largely distinct, independent characteristics. In the current research, we examined the usual assumption that Dark Triad traits (narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) are best studied using a variable-cente...

Deception is a central component of the personality 'Dark Triad' (Machiavellianism, Psychopathy and Narcissism). However, whether individuals exhibiting high scores on Dark Triad measures have a heightened deceptive ability has received little experimental attention. The present study tested whether the ability to lie effectively, and to detect lies told by others, was related to Dark Triad, Li...

While research concludes that populist leaders stand out for their “dark” personalities, studies on the psychological underpinnings of citizens’ attitudes are scant and inconclusive, with some agreement association between disagreeableness attitudes. By bringing Dark Triad personality traits narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism into picture, we aim to answer whether citizens -like leaders-...

Background. Research addressing distinctions and similarities between people's malevolent character traits (i.e., the Dark Triad: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) has detected inconsistent linear associations to temperament traits. Additionally, these dark traits seem to have a common core expressed as uncooperativeness. Hence, some researchers suggest that the dark traits are bes...

The present study is the first behavioral genetic investigation of the Dark Triad traits of personality, consisting of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, and the variable of mental toughness, reflecting individual differences in the ability to cope when under pressure. The purpose of this investigation was to explore a potential explanation for the success of individuals exhibiting ...

Ten years ago Paulhus and Williams (2002) called attention to the ‘Dark Triad’, a constellation of three conceptually distinct but empirically overlapping personality variables. The three members – Machiavellianism, narcissism and subclinical psychopathy – often show differential correlates but share a common core of callous-manipulation. There are now dozens of studies on the triad and, accord...

a r t i c l e i n f o The Dark Triad is a set of correlated personality variables (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) that are related to myriad behaviors. Myriad studies have been conducted to test the relations between the Dark Triad and other personality variables (e.g., the Big 5); however, the developmental correlates have been understudied. In the current study, we exami...

Grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), we integrate personality traits and basic psychological need frustration to explore relationships between students' ‘dark’ the core student outcomes of satisfaction, engagement, performance. Using time-separated, multi-source data (N = 330), examined whether perceived mediated effects dark triad (i.e., Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Narcissism) commo...

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...

The present study aims to assess the psychometric properties (i.e., reliability and validity) factor structure of Korean version Short Dark Triad (SD3) with 27 items for evaluating traits Triad: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy. An analysis using both exploratory (EFA) confirmatory (CFA) within Study 1 2 (N = 250 1, N 2) yielded two factors Machivellianism-Psychopathy (Ma-Psy) Narcissi...