The bright and dark sides of the Dark Triad traits among senior managers: effects on organizational commitment

Bright and dark sides of computational intelligence

The paper describes basic concepts of neural networks and fuzzy systems. It is shows that most commonly used neural network architecture of MLP – Multi Layer Perceptron is also one of the least efficient ones. Also most commonly used EBP – Error Back Propagation algorithm is not only very slow, but also it is not able to find solutions for optimal neural network architectures. EBP can solve pro...

Occupational niches and the Dark Triad traits

The bright and dark sides of evidence-based implantology.

Let’s start with the bright side: the impact factor scores of scientific journals for 2012 were recently released and I was pleased to observe that EJOI substantially improved its score, achieving an impact factor of 2.57 (position 13 out of the 82 dental journals that are currently listed). This should be consid ered an excellent achievement, especially considering the time frame of just 3 yea...

the effects of planning on accuracy and complexity of iranian efl students’ written narrative task performance

this study compared the different effects of form-focused guided planning vs. meaning-focused guided planning on iranian pre-intermediate students’ task performance. the study lasted for three weeks and concentrated on eight english structures. forty five pre-intermediate iranian students were randomly assigned to three groups of guided planning focus-on-form group (gpfg), guided planning focus...

Creatures of the night: Chronotypes and the Dark Triad traits

In this study (N = 263) we provide a basic test of a niche-specialization hypothesis of the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism). We propose that in order to best enact a ‘‘cheater strategy’’ those high on the Dark Triad traits should have optimal cognitive performance and, thus, have a night-time chronotype. Such a disposition will take advantage of the low light, t...