Personality & Individual Differences II

What is the Dark triad?

Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy

What is the Narcissistic Personality?

An excessively self-centred perspective and a strong sense of entitlement, and preoccupation with success.

What is the Machiavellian Personality?

The manipulation and deception of others

What is Psychopathy?

The tendency for a lack of concern for others and a lack of guilt or remorse when their actions cause harm

How can we measure the Dark triad?

Dirty Dozen & Short Dark Triad

What are some criticisms of the Dark triad?

Social desirability bias, short measures lose nuances in each construct. cultural assumptions

What does "short measures lose nuance in each construct" mean?

Short scales do not caputre the complexity of each trait

Who has more Dark triad traits on average, women or men?

Men

What life stage is the Dark triad most prominent on average?

Adolescence

What is the maturity principle?

As people age, traits that are social useful and acceptable go up

Do Psychology students have the darkest personalities?

No- business and economics have higher narcissism in particular

Is narcissism increasing?

Increase found, particularly in women

Why might we be seeing a rise in narcissism?

Relationship between social media use & narcissism in young adults, parenting styles too

What behaviours can we to predict using the Dark triad?

performance at school, pro-environmental behaviours, sexual behaviours, criminal behaviours & citizenship

What is the unification hypothesis? (Joanson et al., 2010)

Strong, positive intercorrelations and have been found to load onto the same factor in factor analysis

What is the uniqueness hypothesis?

The three traits have different patterns of associations with other traits and outcome variables

What is the light triad?

Qualities that embody a loving and beneficent orientation toward others

What are the traits in the light triad?

Kantianism, Humanism, Faith in humanity

What is Kantianism?

Treating people like they matter as humans, not just as tools to get what you want.

What is humanism?

Valuing the dignity and worth of each individual

What is faith in humanity?

Believing in the fundamental goodness of humans

What are some issues with the light triad?

Social desirability bias, relatively new, lack of cross-cultural validity as of now

What is the Nomological network of the dark & light triad?

The network of traits, qualities, and outcomes that you would expect to be associated with a trait to demonstrate that it is a valid construct.

How can we assess the nomological network?

Correlate between measures you expect to be (not) highly correlated or explore whether the traits correlate or predict outcomes in line with expected hyptheses

Which side does the average person fall into?

Light triad

How does the dark triad correlate with other measures?

Higher selfishness, lower empathy & compassion

How does the light triad correlate to other measures?