Too many shades of gray: The Dark Triad and its linkage to coercive and coaxing tactics to obtain sex and the quality of romantic relationships

Prusik, Monika; Konopka, Karolina; Kocur, Dagna

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110413

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“…Dark Triad traits appear to have evolved to take advantage of weaknesses in female defenses against predatory seduction. Having such a personality can motivate callous sexual coaxing and coercion (Jones & Olderbak, 2014; Prusik et al, 2021). Dark Triad traits also correlate with higher socio-emotional intelligence, as narcissists often come across as charming, interesting, and seductive (Nagler et al, 2014).…”

Section: Historical Contextmentioning

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A pop literature theory of mind of the romantic century’s dark triad seducers.

Larsen

2024

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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Section: Historical Contextmentioning

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A pop literature theory of mind of the romantic century’s dark triad seducers.

Larsen

2024

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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“…Psychopathy has predicted aggression both in populations with and without criminal convictions (Blais et al, 2014), and has been considered a risk factor for crime more broadly for decades (Vitacco et al, 2014). Further, the presence of psychopathic traits has been implicated in both sexually violent offenses (Olver & Wong, 2006) and sexually coercive behavior (e.g., Camilleri et al, 2009;Centifanti et al, 2016;DeGue et al, 2010;Hoffmann & Verona, 2021;Krupp et al, 2012;Prusik et al, 2021). Sexual coercion relates to the use of forceful and/or manipulative tactics to obtain sex from a reluctant sexual partner, which may cause physical or emotional trauma (Camilleri et al, 2009).…”

Section: Understanding the Relationship Between Psychopathy And Sexua...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sexual coercion relates to the use of forceful and/or manipulative tactics to obtain sex from a reluctant sexual partner, which may cause physical or emotional trauma (Camilleri et al, 2009). Women are considered to be at higher risk of being victims of sexual coercion than men (Struckman-Johnson et al, 2003), and despite men being more likely to perpetrate sexual coercion than women (Gámez-Guadix et al, 2011;Struckman-Johnson et al, 2003), both men and women use coercive tactics to obtain sex (Prusik et al, 2021).…”

Section: Understanding the Relationship Between Psychopathy And Sexua...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, positive relationships have been identified between proclivity to commit sexual coercion and psychopathic traits in forensic, clinical, and general populations (Hoffmann & Verona, 2021;Prusik et al, 2021); particularly factor one traits (Camilleri et al, 2009;Centifanti et al, 2016;Jones & Olderbak, 2014). Therefore, psychopathy presents a likely predictor of sexual violence, and so its relationship with sexual coercion deserves further exploration -with a particular focus on factor one traits.…”

Section: Understanding the Relationship Between Psychopathy And Sexua...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychopathic Personality as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Atypical Sexuality and Sexual Coercion Proclivity in the General Population

Thatcher¹,

Wallace²,

Fido

2023

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Being sexually coerced can have long-lasting psychological impacts on victims; with perpetration strongly predicted by elevated psychopathic traits. Owing to recent legislative developments in the United Kingdom that criminalize coercive control under the Domestic Abuse Act (2021), this study offers a timely investigation into the mechanisms of sexual coercion in domestic abuse across sexual abuse and coercive control. We used moderation analysis (n = 405) to investigate whether sexual coercion was predicted by psychopathy (specifically the factor one components, which encompasses interpersonal and affective characteristics), and whether this relationship was moderated by facets of hypersexuality. Of such facets, sadism and sadomasochism significantly moderated the positive association between factor one psychopathy and sexual coercion in males (but not females), but masochism and sex drive had no such moderating effect. Results are discussed in terms of identifying risk factors of sexual coercion and international application. Open data and a preprint of this paper are available at [https://osf.io/xkcah/?view_only=134ff9c93ad24ba286515b348ce79c0c].

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“…The Dark Triad seems similar to the will to power that Nietzsche embraced and Adler warned against, and this study is in the research tradition of Adorno on the authoritarian personality. Sexual behavior of these “strongmen” was not mentioned, but in males who are not leaders, the Dark Triad is consistently linked to short-term and coercive mating strategies, across cultures ( Jonason et al, 2020 ; Prusik et al, 2021 ; Valentova et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: The Will To Power and The World Of The Futurementioning

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Is History the Same as Evolution? No. Is it Independent of Evolution? Certainly Not

Konner

2022

Evol Psychol

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History is full of violence and oppression within and between groups, and although group conflicts enhance within-group cooperation (mediated by oxytocin, which promotes parochial altruism) the hierarchy within groups ensures that spoils accrue very unevenly. Darwin suggested, and we now know, that sexual selection is as powerful as selection by mortality, and the main purpose of survival is reproduction. Male reproductive skew is greater than that among females in all societies, but the difference became much greater after the hunting-gathering era, and the rise of so-called “civilization” was everywhere a process of predatory expansion, producing kingdoms and empires where top males achieved astounding heights of reproductive success. This was shown by historical and ethnographic data now strongly confirmed by genomic science. Psychological research confirms that group identity, out-group stigmatization, leadership characterized by charisma, the will to power, narcissism, sociopathy, and cruelty, and followership characterized by hypnotic obedience, loss of individuality, and cruelty are integral parts of human nature. We can thank at least ten or twelve millennia of microevolutionary processes such as those described above, all more prominent in males than females. Followers in wars have faced a difficult risk-benefit analysis, but if they survived and won they too could increase their reproductive success through the rape and other sexual exploitation that have accompanied almost all wars. For modern leaders, social monogamy and contraception have separated autocracy from reproductive success, but only partly, and current worldwide autocratic trends still depend on the evolved will to power, obedience, and cruelty.

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Too many shades of gray: The Dark Triad and its linkage to coercive and coaxing tactics to obtain sex and the quality of romantic relationships

Cited by 17 publications

References 68 publications

A pop literature theory of mind of the romantic century’s dark triad seducers.

A pop literature theory of mind of the romantic century’s dark triad seducers.

Psychopathic Personality as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Atypical Sexuality and Sexual Coercion Proclivity in the General Population

Is History the Same as Evolution? No. Is it Independent of Evolution? Certainly Not

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