Dark Triad

Question 1

Define Machiavellianism

Answer 1

Planful manipulation of other people to further your own ends. This is done by planned, strategic, and manipulative tactics.

Question 2

Define Psychopathy

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Define Narcissism

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Define Sadism

Answer 4

Getting pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, and humiliation on other people

Question 5

What is the difference between Narcissism and psychopathy

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Who was ‘Nicolo Machiavelli’

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is the difference between antisocial and asocial

Answer 7

Antisocial is to commit crime, and rebel against other social constructs. Whereas asocial is to dislike spending time with people

Question 8

What are the two factors of Psychopathy?

Answer 8

Factor one
- no empathy, feeling anxious about getting caught
- manipulative, grandiose, pathological liar

Factor Two
- impulsive, lack if long term goals, attention seeking

Question 9

Where did narcissism originate from?

Answer 9

Ovids metamorphosen–> a man named narcissus was obsessed with himself and drowned because he was so obsessed with his reflection in the water

Question 10

What is recidivism?

Answer 10

Commiting a crime after being released from prison

Question 11

What was the relationship between committing a crime and recidivism in Hare’s study

Answer 11

The higher in psychopathy you were, the more likely it was that you would recommit a crime

Question 12

What do internet trolls score highly in?

Answer 12

All four characteristics of the dark tetrad almost equally

Question 13

What characteristic criteria must someone with Narcissistic personality disorder meet?

Answer 13

Criteria A
- 2/4–> intimacy, empathy, self direction or identity

Criteria B
-2/2–> attention seeking, grandiosity

Question 14

What characteristic criteria must someone with Antisocial personality disorder meet?

Answer 14

Criteria A
- 2/4–> Identity, self direction, empathy, intimacy

Criteria B
- 6/7 of the following: Callousness, deceitfulness, hostility, manipulativeness, impulsivity, risk taking

Question 15

What is the criteria B for the psychopathy variant of antisocial personality disorder

Answer 15

Criteria B
- Low anxiousness, low withdrawal, high in attention seeking, callousness, deceitfulness, hostility, manipulativeness, impulsivity, risk taking

Question 16

What did Watters 2019 and colleagues find?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Define convergent validity

Answer 17

Tests constructs that should be related and are related

Question 18

Define divergent validity

Answer 18

Tests constructs that are thought to not be related with constructs that are not related

Question 19

What is the D-factor

Answer 19

the common core trait of all aversive personality traits

Question 20

What are the findings from moshagen et al.

Answer 20

Worked on the D factor, believed that the d factor is when you do things with only regard to yourself

Question 21

What game and task test antisocial traits

Answer 21

the dictator game and the coin flip cheating task

Question 22

How is the HEXACO model and the big Five different

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What is HEXACO’s honesty-humility?

Answer 23

high scorers avoid manipulation for personal gain, not interested in prestige and wealth, little temptation to break the rules

Question 24

How are honesty-humility similar to the d factor?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

attention seeking
gransionsity

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Low agreeableness