Abstract. Despite corporal punishment being associated with negative developmental outcomes for children, it is commonly practiced in Malaysian courts, schools, and homes. This study examined the relationships among Dark Tetrad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism), anger rumination, attitudes toward of children. Two hundred sixty-three participants from a unive...

Abstract Gratitude promotes prosociality and long-term reciprocal relationships. The Dark Triad is associated with maladaptive interactions in their social interpersonal present study aimed at understanding whether these individuals experience gratitude state trait levels, when presented situations that differentially benefit them. Triad, specifically psychopathy Machiavellianism, negatively gr...

Background. The dark side of human character has been conceptualized in the Dark Triad Model: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. These three dark traits are often measured using single long instruments for each one of the traits. Nevertheless, there is a necessity of short and valid personality measures in psychological research. As an independent research group, we replicated the f...

The social de®cits of schizophrenia have been interpreted in an evolutionary context of Machiavellian social dexterity, stressing de®cits in evolved psychological mechanisms that mediate the interpretation of affect and deceptive intention in others. A complementary hypothesis was tested, that patients with schizophrenia will be relatively non-Machiavellian compared to controls, and that social...

a r t i c l e i n f o Associations between the Dark Triad (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) with two self-report personality measures (i.e., BIS-11 and I 7) and two behavioral tasks (i.e., Stop-Signal task and Delay-Discounting task) of impulsivity in 298 healthy adult volunteers were examined. The strong correlations between psychopathy, narcissism, and self-report measures of im...

The Relationship between Machiavellianism and Moral Identity of Auditors: Examining the Role Gender