With this meta-analytic review, we aimed to estimate the relationship that sadistic personality
has with the Dark Triad traits and, secondarily, describe the research on the Dark Tetrad …

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 …

Objective This research seeks to clarify the association between online trolling and sadistic
personality, and to provide evidence that the reward and rationalization processes at work in …

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 …

Sadism is a personality trait characterised by the enjoyment of other people's pain or
suffering. In this narrative literature review, I provide an overview of the sadism research to …

Past research on determinants of victim blaming mainly concentrated on individuals' just-
world beliefs as motivational process underlying this harsh reaction to others' suffering. The …

Machiavellianism (Mach) and subclinical psychopathy are two widely studied antagonistic
personality traits with distinct theoretical conceptualizations. Mach is conceptualized by …

Regulators and researchers have expressed concerns that social interaction leads auditors
to unjustifiably trust managers, constituting a lack of sufficient professional skepticism. Using …

This paper revisits the ongoing debate regarding the uniqueness of each of the Dark Tetrad
traits. Extending Jones and Neria's (Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 360–364,) …