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Moral disengagement, the dark triad, and unethical consumer attitudes
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“Furthermore, narcissists have been found to more lightheartedly excuse their immoral acts (Egan, Hughes, & Palmer, 2015) and to ignore conventional behavioral rules such as following their boss’s instructions in the workplace (Judge et al., 2006).”
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“Indeed, a factor analytic study showed a stronger clustering of psychopathy and Machiavellianism with other variables (e.g., moral disengagement, unethical attitudes, and disagreeableness) capturing antisocial variance, whereas narcissism was much stronger associated with a non-antisocial factor alongside traits such as extraversion and intellect (11).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Egan, V., Hughes, N., & Palmer, E. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Egan, Vincent
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-04
- Volume
- 76
- Pages
- 123-128
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2052021119
- Cited by
- 239
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 11.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Licence
- Locations
- Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion)
- Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Ethics in Business and Education
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Keywords
- moral disengagement, Dark Triad, antisocial behavior, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, personality traits, incremental validity, consumer ethics
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