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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages 360-364Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.06.021
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Dark Triad; Psychopathy; Narcissism; Machiavellianism; Aggression
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Previous research has demonstrated that people who are callous are more likely to be interpersonally aggressive. The present study extends this finding to research on the Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy), which all share a common core of callousness and manipulation. Using crowd-sourcing and student samples, we examined the relationship between the Dark Triad traits with different facets of dispositional aggression. Results indicated that a common Dark Triad factor (i.e., callousness and manipulation) predicted a common aggression factor. However, the individual Dark Triad traits uniquely predicted different facets of aggression. Psychopathy positively predicted physical aggression, narcissism negatively predicted hostility, and Machiavellianism positively predicted hostility. Taken together, the findings shed light on the unique elements of the Dark Triad and their ability to predict unique forms of dispositional aggression. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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