PSY2001 W6 Reading

Question 1

Does the dark triad show up in different areas of one’s life?

Answer 1

Workplace behaviour, Educational behavoiur, Mating behaviour, interpersonal behaviour and anti-social behaviour

Question 2

How does the dark triad show up in worlplace behaviour?

Answer 2

Emerge in analyses of counter productive behaviour. Notions of toxic leadership, snakes in suits, bad bosses. Typically derail somewhere down the line.
However if dark traid traits are associated with other factors (intellingence/attractiveness) it can help individual aquire position of leadership.

Question 3

How does the mating behaviour show up in worlplace behaviour?

Answer 3

Jonason et al. (2009) argued that the sex difference in Dark Triad scoreshelps explain the fact that men are more likely than women to pursue a short-termimpulsive mating strategy.

Dark individuals (psychopaths), poached mates from others and were themselves poached from their mates at higher rates than those scoring lower on triad traits. This behavior provides one path to reproductivesuccess and ensures that the short-term mating style remains evident in the gene pool.
The manipulative style was localized topsychopathy and the love-struck style to Machiavellianism

Question 4

How does the educational behaviour show up in worlplace behaviour?

Answer 4

Goal of education: knowledge transfer and evaluation

Students w/darker personalites continually face the temptation to cut corners. E.g. cheating and essay plagiarism.
Psychopathy is the the only independent predictor of exam copying, essay pla-giarism is also predicted by Machiavellianism.

Extra credit: Psychopaths and Machiavellianswere found to claim extra credits they had not earned

Question 5

How does the interpersonal beaviour show up in worlplace behaviour?

Answer 5

All three of the Dark Triad admit prejudice against immigrants and, more generally, pro-claim a social dominance orientation.

A closer look indicates thatMachiavellians and psychopaths prefer aggressive humor styles whereas narcissists preferaffiliative humor.

Question 6

How does the antisocial beaviour show up in worlplace behaviour?

Answer 6

Psychopaths are more likely than Machiavellians and narcissists to have confronted the justice system

Psychopaths are known as bullies, aggress after physical threat and actually carry out their deviant fantasies, whether they be sexual or revenge fantasies.
Whereas psychopaths respond aggressively to physical threat, narcissists require significant ego-threat. A