"Dark Triad" personality traits...

[DD214_DOC]

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Anyone familiar with this stuff? I stumbled across it in my research on the developmental course of personality disorder traits and when they begin to emerge, and how they may manifest in adolescence/late childhood. There isn't much information on the latter, by the way.

 

[MacDonaldTriad]

Are you talking about the MacDonald Triad? Mostly discredited I'm afraid.

 

[splik]

no dark triad is machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy.

macdonalds triad has not entirely been discredited - fire setting and cruelty to animals are actually important risk factors for later violence and antisocial personality. bed wetting however does not cluster with this but anxiety, separation anxiety and somatization.

highly recommend people read "the threat to kill" it's a great article and on my list of 100 papers

 

[notdeadyet]

I sort of reckoned macdonald's triad was pretty much entirely discredited when they threw out the bedwetting.

Take out the bedwetting, and you're left with fire setting and animal cruelty. The diad sort of becomes commonsensical.

 

[wolfvgang22]

I think the Dark Triad is pop-psychology bologna.

 

[clausewitz2]

I think the Dark Triad is pop-psychology bologna.

Nope, still a current concept in the social psychology literature, although the name is a bit catchier than is typical:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=dark+triad&btnG=&as_sdt=1,15&as_sdtp=

 

[deleted547627]

This reminded me of a Dark Triad personality test the BBC put out a while ago:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151123-how-dark-is-your-personality

Proud to say that I scored lowly on all three parameters!

 

[splik]

Proud to say that I scored lowly on all three parameters!

a career in forensic psychiatry is probably not in your future then 😉

I scored "infrequently vile"

 

[Shikima]

I'm a Machiavellian and a psychopath.

 

[Amygdarya]

"Shockingly saintly" (and I believe I answered the questions honestly). Meh, I already knew I was boring.

 

[deleted343839]

Nope, still a current concept in the social psychology literature

In other words, a stone's throw away from pop psychology.

 

[Promethean]

Oh! What a pleasant quiz!

I got "moderately nefarious." Mostly on account of a lot of machiavellianism and some narcissism. I'm disappointed to score so low on psychopathy, though. I guess Machiavellian is a better descriptor for those aspects of my personality that I would usually think of that way, though.

It obviously isn't a perfect test. For instance, I do think it is wise to keep one's secrets to oneself. However, I am not particularly wise, and so I hemorrhage my own secrets without the restraint that I would suggest to someone else as prudent. I guess I am narcissistic enough to consider that I am a special case, so that what I think is generally wise is not applicable to me.

Still. I think I want "Moderately Nefarious" on my business cards.

 

[JKinSC]

"Infrequently vile"

My wife may argue the frequency of that...

 

[sunlioness]

Shockingly saintly.

Yawn.


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[smalltownpsych]

I scored a Decidedly Dastardly. Very high on Machiavellian and Narcissistic traits and moderately high on the Psychopathy. I guess I still need to work on increasing my psychopathic traits. This quiz is definitely more useful than the Meyer's-Briggs and probably has better psychometrics.

 

[downwithDTB]

That test just confuses me...

"You should wait for the right time to get back at people."

If I disagree, am I disagreeing with getting back at people in general or with waiting until the *right* time. I'm not a big fan of revenge, but I guess I'd recommend waiting until the right time if the revenge is a given.

Also, a secret is by definition kept from others, so the second its shared its not a secret, so how can I answer that?

Most people can be manipulated. Might as well ask if the earth is round... This is a pretty scientifically established fact, no?

Finally, worst pet peeve: Psychologists/scientists/doctors say _____.

 

[sunlioness]

Yeah. I agreed that most people could be manipulated. That didn't mean I wanted to manipulate them. I mildly agreed with that one.

 

[smalltownpsych]

That test just confuses me...

"You should wait for the right time to get back at people."

If I disagree, am I disagreeing with getting back at people in general or with waiting until the *right* time. I'm not a big fan of revenge, but I guess I'd recommend waiting until the right time if the revenge is a given.

Also, a secret is by definition kept from others, so the second its shared its not a secret, so how can I answer that?

Most people can be manipulated. Might as well ask if the earth is round... This is a pretty scientifically established fact, no?

Finally, worst pet peeve: Psychologists/scientists/doctors say _____.

This test would be a good example to give undergrad psychology students to explain wording effects in test design. I'm thinking that this wasn't meant to be taken seriously. Maybe you should try the PCL-R for a more psychometrically sound measure of psychopathy or the forensic people could tell you what is a better measure than that. I just use my spidey-senses to tell me when a psychopath is in the room.

 

[HarryMTieboutMD]

Unhappy Triad: ACL, MCL, Medial meniscus... BOOM

Moderately nefarious btw... I need to reread The Prince

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Infrequently vile -- I guess that means I'm vile sometimes. Apparently I'm somewhat Machiavellian (actually I should be more Machiavellian -- I think it would make my life better), but I'm not much of a a psychopath. Narcissism was between those two.