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The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
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“because the focus of our research was solely on narcissistic leaders, we did not measure the other two Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism and psychopathy; Paulhus and Williams, 2002). Therefore, it was not possible to control for these constructs to isolate the unique effects of leader narcissism.”
From Narcissistic Leaders and Their Victims: Followers Low on Self-Esteem and Low on Core Self-Evaluations Suffer Most (2018) · cites this paper as Paulhus and Williams, 2002
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“Fifth, the current study did not associate the Dark Triad (Paulhus and Williams, 2002) of personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy with sweet deception.”
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“Machiavellianism refers to a manipulative personality, where the individual uses other people to achieve their desired ends (Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
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“Along the same vein, psychopathy (characterized by antisocial behaviour, disinhibition and limited empathy), makes up another of the pillars of the Dark Triad (Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
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“DT consists of three personality traits that are correlated but conceptually distinct from each other (Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
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“One of the criticisms for our study, and the Dark Triad research as a whole, is the lack of diversity in the study populations (Lyons, 2019).”
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“The Dark Triad was first described by Paulhus and Williams (2002).”
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“According to Paulhus and Williams (2002), there are three distinct dimensions that represent the dark side of human personality (labelled the Dark Triad): narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.”
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“As one of these three so-called dark personality features (Paulhus & Williams, 2002), Machiavellianism involves a tendency tomanipulate others in pursuit of selfish gains (Lee et al., 2013).”
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“A similar point may be made with respect to narcissism and Machiavellianism, which, with psychopathy, constitute the socalled “Dark Triad” (Paulhus, 2014; Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Paulhus, D. L., & Williams, K. M.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Paulhus, Delroy L
- Venue
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-12
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 556-563
- ISSN
- 0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1982777740
- Cited by
- 5,265
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 394 · 2025: 486 · 2024: 444 · 2023: 524 · 2022: 455 · 2021: 465 · 2020: 522 · 2019: 331 · 2018: 306 · 2017: 271 · 2016: 226 · 2015: 202 · 2014: 158 · 2013: 107 · 2012: 100
- FWCI
- 11.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Research in Personality (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Keywords
- Dark Triad, narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, Big Five personality traits, agreeableness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, cognitive ability, self-enhancement
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