29 September 2018

Evil Personality Traits Are Highly Correlated

Egoism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, spitefulness and others are among the traits of the malevolent side of human personality. As results from a recently published German-Danish research project show, these traits share a common "dark core." People with one of these tendencies are also likely to have one or more of the others.
From here.

2 comments:

Guy said...

A modern correlation paper without a GWAS? Maybe they're saving that for a follow-on.

Cheers,
Guy

andrew said...

It will happen one of these days.

They've done GWAS for Big Five personality traits and one of those (agreeableness) is correlated with dark triad traits behaviorally. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278898/#R22 (see the sentence cited with footnote 22).