[HTML][HTML] Dark triads, tetrads, tents, and cores: Why navigate (research) the jungle of dark personality models without a compass (criterion)?

CM Kowalski, R Rogoza, DH Saklofske, JA Schermer - Acta Psychologica, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Exposing the darkness within: A review of dark personality traits, models, and measures and their relationship to insider threats

PD Harms, A Marbut, AC Johnston, P Lester… - Journal of Information …, 2022 - Elsevier
Insider threats are a pernicious threat to modern organizations that involve individuals
intentionally or unintentionally engaging in behaviors that undermine or abuse information …

The Dark Tetrad, cybervictimization, and cyberbullying: The role of moral disengagement

A Gajda, M Moroń, M Królik, M Małuch, M Mraczek - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Cyberbullying is a form of antisocial online behaviors. Perpetration of intentional and
repeated harm inflicted through electronic devices is associated with dark personality traits …

The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct?

C Blötner, A Mokros - Personality and Individual Differences, 2023 - Elsevier
There is vigorous debate about the distinctiveness of the components that make up the Dark
Triad. With its expansion toward the Dark Tetrad, the inclusion of everyday sadism sparked …

Dark or disturbed?: Predicting aggression from the Dark Tetrad and schizotypy

DL Paulhus, R Gupta, DN Jones - Aggressive behavior, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Troll story: The dark tetrad and online trolling revisited with a glance at humor

SA Volkmer, S Gaube, M Raue, E Lermer - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Internet trolling is considered a negative form of online interaction that can have detrimental
effects on people's well-being. This pre-registered, experimental study had three aims: first …

Dark personality traits and sensation-seeking tourist behaviors. Is there a link? A preliminary investigation of Chinese tourists

S Yousaf, Y Liu, L Feite - Tourism Management Perspectives, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study is the first attempt to understand sensation-seeking tourist behavior
(SSTB) from the perspective of dark personality taxonomy of dark tetrad traits …

To be fooled or not to be fooled: Approach and avoidance facets of Machiavellianism.

C Blötner, S Bergold - Psychological Assessment, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The antagonistic personality trait Machiavellianism (Mach) should be characterized by
duplicity, proclivity to manipulation, cynical disregard of others, long-term planning, and low …

I like it because it hurts you: On the association of everyday sadism, sadistic pleasure, and victim blaming.

C Sassenrath, J Keller, D Stöckle… - Journal of personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Screening for dark personalities in Portugal: Intra-and interpersonal correlates, reliability and invariance of the Short Dark Tetrad Portuguese version

P Pechorro, S Karandikar, B Carvalho, M DeLisi… - Deviant …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Dark Tetrad refers to a cluster of four socially aversive and undesirable
personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. The main aim of …