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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.
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  1. Guy9/30/2018 10:55 AM

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

    Cheers,
    Guy

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  2. andrew9/30/2018 12:19 PM

    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).

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