Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad

B Bonfá-Araujo, AR Lima-Costa, N Hauck-Filho… - Personality and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] The nomological network of the Short Dark Tetrad scale (SD4)

C Blötner, M Ziegler, C Wehner… - European Journal of …, 2021 - econtent.hogrefe.com
The present study examined the nomological network of the Short Dark Tetrad scale (SD4).
The SD4 measures narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism. We translated …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the relationship between everyday sadism and aggression: Can subclinical sadistic traits predict …

L Thomas, V Egan - Aggression and violent behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Everyday sadism is unique among the dark personality traits that form the Dark
Tetrad. Whilst it shares the Dark Core of Personality with psychopathy, narcissism, and …

The relation between narcissism and aggression: A metaanalysis

TV Du, JD Miller, DR Lynam - Journal of personality, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Narcissism is a complex, hierarchical construct that can be studied at the one, two,
or three factor levels with different components within each level having their own unique …

Differentiating the traits of the Dark Tetrad in their linkages with humor styles, dispositions toward ridicule and laughter, and comic styles

J Torres-Marin, G Navarro-Carrillo… - Personality and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent studies of the traits of the Dark Tetrad (ie, narcissism, psychopathy,
Machiavellianism, and everyday sadism) have emphasized the need to elucidate their …

Centrality and redundancy of the Dark Tetrad traits

BM Dinić, A Wertag, A Tomašević… - Personality and individual …, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this research was to examine centrality and redundancy of the Dark Tetrad traits
(psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and sadism) using network analysis. The first …

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 …

Everyday sadism: psychometric properties of three Spanish versions for assessing the construct

D Pineda, JA Piqueras, M Galán… - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Everyday sadism refers to the non-clinical personality trait of sadism, someone who obtains
pleasure from inflicting pain or from the suffer of other people. This construct, in the recent …

The tetradic heart of darkness: Comparing three dark-side instruments

A Furnham, G Horne - Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this two-study paper we examined three dark-side measures: the short Dark Tetrad
measuring four dark-side traits; the SCATI measuring 14 personality disorders (PDs) and the …