This comprehensive review summarizes and evaluates the present state of the Dark Triad
research literature (or more broadly, the dark personality trait literature), and as such serves …

Consensus is emerging that the constellation of dark personalities should include the
sadistic personality. To build a four-factor measure, we modified and extended the Short …

Previous research has attempted to derive arguments for the categorization of traits as
'dark'without theoretical justification or rationalizations. We begin with a description of …

Psychological science aims to make the abstract measurable and quantifiable. As
psychologists it is our challenge and charge to capture complex abstractions (eg …

To date, no studies have examined a range of structural models of the interpersonally
aversive traits tapped by the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4; narcissism, Machiavellianism …

Research on the personality foundations of aggression typically implicates either (a) aspects
of the so‐called “Dark Tetrad” or (b) severe mental disturbance (psychosis). The appearance …

We investigated the putative redundancy of the Dark Tetrad (specifically, Machiavellianism-
psychopathy and sadism-psychopathy) through an examination of the differences between …

Learn which dark side of personality assessment to use and when Introduces different
assessment tools Highlights the nuances between tests Presents the relevant psychometric …

This chapter covers two instruments that we have contributed to the dark trait literature. We
first review the Short Dark Triad (SD3; Jones & Paulhus, 2014), which measures narcissism …

Esports are competitive video games that are typically played online. League of Legends
(LoL) is an esport with a ranking system that measures player performance in temporary …