Unpacking more “evil”: What is at the core of the dark tetrad?

Book, Angela S.; Visser, Beth A.; Blais, Julie; Hosker-Field, Ashley M.; Methot-Jones, Tabatha; Gauthier, Nathalie; Volk, Anthony A.; Holden, Ronald R.; D’Agata, Madeleine T.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.009

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“…Thus, it seems that individuals scoring highly on sadism and Machiavellianism stand out from the pack in a particularly bad way. These results highlight a differential association between Dark Tetrad traits and the normativity of impressions beyond the shared core (e.g., Book et al, ; D. N. Jones & Figueredo, ), particularly for sadism.…”

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“…In comparison, targets scoring lower on these malevolent traits may provide more honest information about themselves (cf. Book et al, ), which would facilitate the formation of accurate first impressions.…”

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“…Broadly defined, individual differences in everyday sadism (Buckels, Jones, & Paulhus, ; Paulhus & Dutton, ) reflect tendencies to experience pleasure from the suffering of others that can be perpetrated directly (direct sadism) or observed from an outsider's perspective (vicarious sadism; Paulhus & Jones, ) and may involve physical, psychological, emotional, or even fantasized forms of harm. There are moderately sized positive associations between self‐report measures of sadism and the Dark Triad (Book et al, ; Buckels et al, ; Buckels, Trapnell, & Paulhus, ; Chabrol, Leeuwen, Rodgers, & Séjourné, ; March, Grieve, Marrington, & Jonason, ) that are similar in magnitude to the intercorrelations among those three traits (Paulhus & Williams, ). Importantly, everyday sadism predicts antisocial behavior independently of its overlap with the Dark Triad (Buckels et al, ; Greitemeyer & Sagioglou, ; March et al, ).…”

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Dispositional malevolence and impression formation: Dark Tetrad associations with accuracy and positivity in first impressions

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Dispositional malevolence and impression formation: Dark Tetrad associations with accuracy and positivity in first impressions

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“…Everyday sadism is positively related to the other dark personalities, in particular psychopathy and Machiavellianism (e.g., Book et al, 2016), but is conceptually distinct in that this trait particularly predicts experiencing pleasure from causing harm. For example, individuals who score high on the personality trait of everyday sadism find more pleasure in killing bugs and harming unknown persons than do nonsadists.…”

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Are everyday sadists specifically attracted to violent video games and do they emotionally benefit from playing those games?

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Heuberger

2018

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The present research tested the hypothesis that everyday sadists show a distinct preference for violent video games and examined the relationship between everyday sadism and participant's mood after violent video game play. In Study 1, participants watched three trailers for video games that differed in their level of violent content. Whereas everyday sadists were attracted to a violent video game, there was no significant positive association between everyday sadism and attraction to the nonviolent video games. Study 2 showed that after playing a violent video game, there was a significant positive relationship between everyday sadism and participant's positive mood and a negative relationship between everyday sadism and participant's negative mood. In contrast, after playing a nonviolent video game, the relationship between everyday sadism and participant's negative mood was less pronounced. Overall, these studies show that everyday sadists specifically like to play violent video games and suggest that this tendency is adaptive in that they emotionally benefit from playing violent video games.

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“…For example, studies (e.g., Hodson, 2018; highlighting the presence of Antagonism in common core are primarily suggestive in nature and seldom have tested its contribution to dark core. Additionally, with rare exceptions (e.g., Book et al, 2015;2016;Jones & Figuerdo, 2013), often researchers have analyzed and examined role of various dark core factors separately in different studies and have scarcely investigated their relative strength in explaining high intercorrelations among dark triad traits. Hence, comparative contribution of various dark core factors to high correlation among dark triad traits is largely unknown.…”

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The Antagonistic Dark Core

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2019

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The dark core represents the commonalities across the dark triad (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy). This study contributes to the dark core literature by examining Antagonism as the prime member accounting for the dark core and tests its relative ability in explaining the dark core as compared to other such factors namely, Primary Psychopathy, Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness. A pool of 270 prospective managers (157 males, 113 females, Mage = 25.7 yrs., SDage = 3.2 years) from a leading business school of India were selected for this study. The obtained data was subjected to Hierarchical Linear Regression, Relative Weights Analysis and Commonality Analysis in a bid to flesh out unique and common variance attributed to each predictor for comparing the ability of Antagonism in explaining the dark core in relation to other variables. Antagonism was found to outperform other predictors in accounting for the dark core and explaining variance associated with Narcissism. Honesty-Humility was found to be acting as a suppressor variable, thus increasing the predictive ability of Antagonism and Primary Psychopathy in accounting for the dark core. In short, dark traited people are antagonistic at core.

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Unpacking more “evil”: What is at the core of the dark tetrad?

Cited by 153 publications

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Dispositional malevolence and impression formation: Dark Tetrad associations with accuracy and positivity in first impressions

Dispositional malevolence and impression formation: Dark Tetrad associations with accuracy and positivity in first impressions

Are everyday sadists specifically attracted to violent video games and do they emotionally benefit from playing those games?

The Antagonistic Dark Core

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