Question

1. What is the Dark Triad? What are the three traits in the Dark Triad personality structure? Explain each trait – do not simply list them. Give an example of each trait (how would we observe each trait behaviorally?).

Answer 1

Dark Traid is charactertorised by three personality aspects such as Narscissm - In this people have lot of ego and they like bein praise and can not tolerate if others are being praised, they have pride of themselves and lack of empthay for others.

Another is Machiavellianism - It is charachterized by exploitation of others, diregard to morality. Person purposely would not on the lines of morality in order to achieve something or the other. It is focusing on self interest and deception, they priorotise money and power over relationship, they do not always feel responbile for consequences of their own actions. It is manipulation for their personal gain.

Psycopathy - People having this are usually charaterized by impulsivess, anti social behaviour, breaking of rules.

There are test which indicate the level of dark traid, people scoring high on this test are most likely to get involved in crimes or other such scenes.