The Malevolent Side of Human Nature

By P. Muris, H. Merckelbach, Henry Otgaar, E. Meijer. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2017

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A primer on the Dark Triad traits (2019, background): “It may be the case that the DD and the SD3 do not capture the full breadth of psychopathy—the DD only measures callous affect; both measures may not assess both primary and secondary psychopathy (Maples et al., 2014; Muris et al., 2017; but see Jonason & Luévano, 2013).”
A Network of Dark Personality Traits: What Lies at the Heart of Darkness? (2018, background): “A meta-analysis of studies that assessed all three Dark Triad traits found a large correlation between Machiavellianism and psychopathy and medium-sized correlations between psychopathy and narcissism and between Machiavellianism and narcissism (Muris et al., 2017).”
Is the Dark Triad common factor distinct from low Honesty-Humility? (2018, methodology): “Paulhus (2014) has explic- itly considered a similar possibility, stating that ‘‘. . . one intriguing possibility for future research would involve measuring both positive and dark personality traits in the same people.”