By examining Dark Triad personality traits and love styles, the researchers sought to gain deeper insight into the personal attributes that shape romantic outcomes. “Romantic relationships are ...

whereas characters like Batman and James Bond portray dark personality traits, making them anti-heroes. They are driven by impulsivity, dishonesty, and selfishness demonstrating traits of narcissism, ...

Recent research has unveiled a new personality type that shares similarities with psychopaths and narcissists, but may prove to be even more dangerous. One of the most common assumptions about ...

As a personality trait, machiavellianism is characterized by the use of deceit and manipulation to achieve personal goals, often at the expense of others. It is a part of the “dark tetrad” of ...

Two dark personalities that are often confused in popular, non-scientific writing are the sadistic personality and the psychopathic personality. A recent paper published in the European Journal of ...

The term “Dark Triad” refers to a trio of negative personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—which share some common malevolent features. The construct was coined by ...

Everyone has dark triad personality traits - those associated with narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. But not everyone is a full blown narcissist or psychopath. In everyday life ...

But that doesn’t make this personality type any less threatening. Durvasula estimates that 4 to 5 percent of the population might qualify as “dark empaths.” Here’s how they pull off their ...