Empathy deficits and trait emotional intelligence in psychopathy and Machiavellianism

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The affective and cognitive empathic nature of the dark triad of personality. (2012, methodology): “We used SAM as an affective empathy facial responding task, by replicating the procedure from a study by Ali, Amorim, and Chamorro-Premuzic (2009), extending the task by adding angry and fearful expressions, as both are considered basic universal emotions (Ekman & Friesen, 1971).”
The dark side of love: Love styles and the Dark Triad (2010, methodology): “The Dark Triad is related to numerous emotional, empathy, and theory of mind deficiencies (e.g., Ali et al., 2009).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, methodology): “What does recent research reveal concerning these conflicting predictions, as to ToM capabilities of Machiavellians?”
The dark side of love and life satisfaction: Associations with intimate relationships, psychopathy and Machiavellianism (2010, background): “Research into aversive or ‘‘dark side” personality traits is burgeoning, with particular interest directed towards the emotional deficits endemic in non-clinical psychopathy and Machiavellianism, such as anxiety, emotion modulated startle response, emotion perception, empathy, aggression and emotion”