dark triad

Indeed, it has been found that individuals demonstrating dark triad personality can be highly successful in society.

Research has begun to investigate the origins of the dark triad traits.

The evidence is mixed regarding the exact link between the dark triad and reproductive success.

"Those who score highly on the dark triad traits are, like many other predators, creatures of the night," he says.

Those exhibiting dark triad behaviour need to prey on the cooperative and unsuspecting.

Nevertheless, several academic studies have found evidence that people with dark triad personalities are judged as slightly better looking than average on first sight.

The Dark Triad at work: How toxic employees get their way.

The main evolutionary argument behind the dark triad traits emphasizes mating strategies.

All three traits of the dark triad have been found to have substantial genetic components.

The evolutionary perspective (above) considers the dark triad to represent different mating strategies.

The dark triad overall is negatively related to both agreeableness and conscientiousness.

As noted previously, there is a good deal of conceptual and empirical overlap between the dark triad traits.

However, long-term relationship survival is likely to be strongly disadvantaged in people with dark triad traits."

The long-debated "nature versus nurture" issue has not escaped application to the dark triad.

Several researchers have suggested expanding the dark triad to contain a fourth dark trait.

"Dark triad traits are useful in pursuing our agendas at any given time," Jonason explained.

Bad boys exhibit dark triad traits and their behaviour, according to one theory, is genetic, meaning they are unlikely to change their ways.

Furnham (2010) has identified that the dark triad is related to the acquisition of leadership positions and interpersonal influence.

The dark triad is a group of three personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy.

The fictional character of James Bond is frequently cited as possessing dark triad traits.

Likewise, all three dark triad traits are strongly negatively correlated with Honesty-Humility.

Despite these criticisms and the acknowledged commonalities among the dark triad traits, there is evidence that the constructs are related yet distinct.

Both nocturnality and Dark Triad traits are hereditary, and adaptive.

It may signal what psychologists call the dark triad of psychopathic, narcissistic, and Machiavellian personality disorders.

So a dark triad was completed, the gory Aztec flower cut by the booming Spanish song.