Dark Triad Flashcards
Define Machiavellianism
Planful manipulation of other people to further your own ends. This is done by planned, strategic, and manipulative tactics.
Define Psychopathy
Includes two factors, the first includes characteristics including no; empathy; feeling bad about actions; feeling anxious of being caught. The second factor includes variables such as impulsive, lacking long term goals and sensation seeking
Define Narcissism
consists of behaviours such as egotistical attention seeking, bragging, derogates other people, inflated sense of self-worth and feels entitled to special treatment. When any of these behaviours are questioned by others, the reaction is often defensive
Define Sadism
Getting pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, and humiliation on other people
What is the difference between Narcissism and psychopathy
The characteristics of psychopathy often lead those who suffer from it to do things without thinking about how others may feel as a result of their actions. Whereas narcissists often recognize that their actions may hurt people, but they continue to take those actions. Essentially, the outcome may be the same but the intention is very different
Who was ‘Nicolo Machiavelli’
Believed the success of politics was based on the deserving manipulation of others
Was an advisor to the medici family in Florence
Thought that those should choose to be feared rather than be loved
What is the difference between antisocial and asocial
Antisocial is to commit crime, and rebel against other social constructs. Whereas asocial is to dislike spending time with people
What are the two factors of Psychopathy?
Factor one
- no empathy, feeling anxious about getting caught
- manipulative, grandiose, pathological liar
Factor Two
- impulsive, lack if long term goals, attention seeking
Where did narcissism originate from?
Ovids metamorphosen–> a man named narcissus was obsessed with himself and drowned because he was so obsessed with his reflection in the water
What is recidivism?
Commiting a crime after being released from prison
What was the relationship between committing a crime and recidivism in Hare’s study
The higher in psychopathy you were, the more likely it was that you would recommit a crime
What do internet trolls score highly in?
All four characteristics of the dark tetrad almost equally
What characteristic criteria must someone with Narcissistic personality disorder meet?
Criteria A
- 2/4–> intimacy, empathy, self direction or identity
Criteria B
-2/2–> attention seeking, grandiosity
What characteristic criteria must someone with Antisocial personality disorder meet?
Criteria A
- 2/4–> Identity, self direction, empathy, intimacy
Criteria B
- 6/7 of the following: Callousness, deceitfulness, hostility, manipulativeness, impulsivity, risk taking
What is the criteria B for the psychopathy variant of antisocial personality disorder
Criteria B
- Low anxiousness, low withdrawal, high in attention seeking, callousness, deceitfulness, hostility, manipulativeness, impulsivity, risk taking
What did Watters 2019 and colleagues find?
Used convergent and discriminant validity to examine the overlap between Narcissism personality disorder and Antisocial personality disorder. They found that there was a significant overlap between the disorders and therefore they cannot be easily separated. Because antisocialism is a factor to psychopathy it makes the two disorders very difficult to separate
Define convergent validity
Tests constructs that should be related and are related
Define divergent validity
Tests constructs that are thought to not be related with constructs that are not related
What is the D-factor
the common core trait of all aversive personality traits
What are the findings from moshagen et al.
Worked on the D factor, believed that the d factor is when you do things with only regard to yourself
What game and task test antisocial traits
the dictator game and the coin flip cheating task
How is the HEXACO model and the big Five different
The HEXACO model makes two changes to the big five
1. anger in neuroticism from the big Five model is moved to agreeableness in the HEXACO model
2. honesty-humility makes the sixth category
What is HEXACO’s honesty-humility?
high scorers avoid manipulation for personal gain, not interested in prestige and wealth, little temptation to break the rules
How are honesty-humility similar to the d factor?
Low scorers of honesty humility take pleasure in using others, and enjoy material things. this is similar to those who score high in the D factor
Which of the following DSM 5 personality traits are part of the official diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
A. Anhedonia
B. Attention Seeking
C. Distractibility
D. Intimacy Avoidance
E. Emotional Lability
F. Impulsivity
G. Grandiosity
attention seeking
gransionsity
John is generally pretty blunt. He gets angry easily and says what is on his mind, even if it hurts people’s feelings. This said, he is not impulsive, manipulative, or grandiose. Which of the following BEST describes this aspect of John’s personality?
A. High psychopathy
B. High narcissism
C. High Machiavellianism
D. Low conscientiousness
E. Low agreeableness
Low agreeableness
