Dark Triad Overview


Dark triad Overview

Writ by Jesse Lee

The dark triad is a set of three personality traits that are considered to be socially undesirable. These traits are:

narcissism

psychopathy
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and

Machiavellianism.

Narcissism
Narcissism is characterized by an:

inflated sense of one's own importance

a deep need for admiration

and

a lack of empathy for others. 

Psychopathy
Psychopathy is characterized by

impulsivity

selfishness

and remorselessness.

Machiavellianism
Machiavellianism is characterized by

manipulation

 and exploitation
 of others without guilt or remorse.

The dark triad can be used to control people in many ways such as through

charm

gaslighting

intimidation

isolation

 and/or manipulation.

Those are just a few of the coercive tactics used by a dark triad personality shall we discuss more





Dark Triad

Increase self reward, surplus, supply, power, success,position




Lack of concern, at cost of, to detriment, callous regard, on back of

Narcissism

Psychopathy

Machiavellianism

  • grandiosity

  •  entitlement

  •  dominance 

  •  superiority 


(Raskin and Hall, 1979; Corry et al., 2008)


  • impulsivity

  •  risk-taking

  • low neurotic 

  •  low empathy


 (Hare,1985)



  • cold

  • cynical

  •  amoral worldview

  • detached

  •  strategic

  • manipulative 

(Christie and Geis, 1970)

deception-general ability is centered around the associations of executive functions and theory of mind—the ability to understand others' mental states—with deception production and deception detection ability

 (Wright G. R. T. et al., 2012)

Narcissism positively associated with theory of mind (Vonk et al., 2015)

Machiavellianism and psychopathy  deficits in empathy & theory of mind (Ali et al., 2009; Ali and Chamorro-Premuzic, 2010; Vonk et al., 2015)

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