The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy

By D. Paulhus, Kevin M. Williams. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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2. D. Paulhus
3. Daniel N. Jones
4. J. Rauthmann
5. W. Keith Campbell
6. Kibeom Lee
7. P. Vernon
8. Virgil Zeigler‐Hill

Citations in the corpus

• The Dark Triad and sexual harassment proclivity (2016, background): “Given the connection between sexual harassment and the willingness to exploit others (e.g., Lee et al., 2003), we focused our investigation on the Dark Triad of personality (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism; Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
• Pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. (2010, background): “…NPI scores as being reactive to unmet expectations, resistant to feedback disconfirming of positive self-views, manipulative, self-enhancing, prone to aggression, and exhibiting a dominant interpersonal style (Bushman & Baumeister 1998, Morf 2006, Morf & Rhodewalt 2001, Paulhus & Williams 2002).”
• Exploring Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism in Youth: Examination of Associations with Antisocial Behavior and Aggression (2013, methodology): “…ranging from .18 to .62), with the weakest associations found between narcissism and MACH, and the strongest associations found between psychopathy and MACH (Campbell et al., 2009; Hodson, Hogg, & MacInnis, 2009; Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006; Lee & Ashton, 2005; Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
• Which personality traits are related to traditional bullying and cyberbullying? A study with the Big Five, Dark Triad and sadism (2017, background): “Psychopathy refers to low feelings of empathy, thrill seeking and fearlessness (Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006; Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
• Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: Capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths (2015, background): “Psychopaths share some characteristics with narcissists and Machiavellians, and psychologists often research them as the so called dark triad of personalities (Paulhus and Williams, 2002).”
• Dominance styles mediate sex differences in Dark Triad traits (2015, background): “The Dark Triad (i.e., subclinical narcissism, Machiavellianism, and subclinical psychopathy; Paulhus & Williams, 2002) represents a self-serving and often instrumental style of social interaction that allows those employing this strategy to mine social groups, or individuals, for things they desire…”
• Investigating When and Why Psychological Entitlement Predicts Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (2019, background): “For instance, Machiavellianism is considered to be one of the “Dark Triad” personality traits (e.g., Paulhus and Williams 2002).”
• The Dark Triad of personality and unethical behavior at different times of day (2016, background): “However, they are not equivalent, but rather “overlapping but distinct constructs” (Paulhus & Williams, 2002, p. 556).”
• What a tangled web we weave: The Dark Triad traits and deception (2014, background): “While few people lie, it may be predominantly done by those high on psychopathy (Kashy & DePaulo, 1996; Serota & Levine, 2014) and Machiavellianism may be conceptually similar to psychopathy (Paulhus & Williams, 2002).”
• The Dark Triad and Nascent Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Unproductive versus Productive Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “…Lerner 2016; Verheul et al. 2016), we suggest that each facet of the dark triad may yield an attraction toward launching a new venture, driven at least in part 4We refer to psychopathy as per the dark triad and personality literature (e.g., Jonason and Webster 2010; Paulhus and Williams 2002).”
• Is there a ''dark intelligence''? Emotional intelligence is used by dark personalities to emotionally manipulate others (2014, background): “The Dark Triad The Dark Triad consists of three conceptually distinct, but empirically overlapping personality traits (Furnham, Richards, & Paulhus, 2013; Paulhus & Williams, 2002): narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.”
• Narcissistic CEOs and executive compensation (2014, background): “~ M. Wilson”