The Dark Triad and strategic resource control in a competitive computer game

Strategic resource control poses a trade-off to attackers and defenders. Actions that reclaim of pose costs, but by an adversary also costs. Thus, strategy is required maximize outcomes. Research on the Dark Triad personality has suggested Machiavellianism associated with strategic orientation, whereas psychopathy narcissism are direct aggression overconfidence (respectively). individuals high in should outperform those game. We tested this hypothesis using modified version “Flipit” Using type behavioral extension Extensive Form Game (EFG) we found Machiavellian were more successful their performance than psychopathy. Further, poor was partially driven non-attention Findings have implications for defending against cybersecurity settings.