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The Dark Triad and competitive psychological climate at work: A model of reciprocal relationships in dependence of age and organization change

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How Likable Are Personality Disorder and General Personality Traits to Those Who Possess Them?

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Dark personality voters find dark politicians more relatable and fit for office

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The Mediating Role of the Dark Triad Between Life History Strategy and Perceived Stress Factors

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Analytic flexibility in laboratory aggression paradigms: Relations with personality traits vary (slightly) by operationalization of aggression

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Nomological network of two-dimensional Machiavellianism

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The dark personality and psychopathology: Toward a brighter future.

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Developmental pathways of childhood dark traits.

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Components of the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy and the Five-Factor Model Domains Share Largely Overlapping Nomological Networks

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Dark Triad Traits Within the Framework of the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits Model

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To be fooled or not to be fooled: Approach and avoidance facets of Machiavellianism.

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Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy

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“I'll teach you differences”: Taxometric analysis of the Dark Triad, trait sadism, and the Dark Core of personality

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Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders

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Parent Autonomy Support and Psychological Control, Dark Triad, and Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Adolescents: Synergy of Variable- and Person-Centered Approaches

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The positive connection between dark triad traits and leadership levels in self- and other-ratings

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The Relationship Between the Three Models of Emotional Intelligence and Psychopathy: A Systematic Review

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Validation of the Short Dark Triad in a German Sample

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Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends

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A simulator of the degree to which random responding leads to biases in the correlations between two individual differences

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The dark triad and willingness to commit insurance fraud

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Dark personality traits and psychological need frustration explain future levels of student satisfaction, engagement, and performance

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As cold as a fish? Relationships between the Dark Triad personality traits and affective experience during the day: A day reconstruction study

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Searching for Machiavelli but finding psychopathy and narcissism.

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The need for domination in psychopathic leadership: A clarification for the estimated high prevalence of psychopathic leaders

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The Importance of Antagonism: Explaining Similarities and Differences in Psychopathy and Narcissism's Relations With Aggression and Externalizing Outcomes

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The dark triad and bullying in adolescence: A three-wave random intercept cross-lagged panel analysis

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Validation of the Five-Factor Model Antagonistic Triad Measure

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Dark thoughts, dark deeds: An exploration of the relationship between the Dark Tetrad and aggression

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Every cloud has a silver lining: Narcissism's buffering impact on the relationship between the Dark Triad and well-being

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Problematic personalities in teams: Implications for performance trajectories and resilience to unexpected change

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Evaluating the Instantiation of Narcissism Components in Contemporary Measures of Psychopathy

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An identity and reputation approach to understanding the Dark Triad in the workplace

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Psychopathy and machiavellianism: a distinction without a difference?

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The structure of the Dark Triad traits: A network analysis

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The latent structure of the Dark Triad: Unifying Machiavellianism and psychopathy

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Discriminating the dark triad of personality

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