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==Personality: Women are attracted to the Dark Triad - Narcissism, Manipulativeness, & Psychopathy== | ==Personality: Women are attracted to the Dark Triad - Narcissism, Manipulativeness, & Psychopathy== | ||
... | The dark triad is defined as: Narcissism, Manipulativeness, and Psychopathy (insensitivity to others). | ||
This study assessed the personality traits women find most attractive, by presenting women with male characters of varying degrees of Dark Triad personality. Physicality was held constant. | |||
They found with 99.9% statistical certainty that Dark Triad traits were absolutely more attractive to women compared to the control characters who lacked these traits. Furthermore, the attractiveness of these Dark Traits was not explained by other characteristics like extroversion. | |||
They suggest the "Dirty Dozen" as a tool for quickly understanding what the Dark Triad represents and how it can be quantified: | |||
# I tend to manipulate others to get my way. | |||
# I tend to lack remorse. | |||
# I tend to want others to admire me. | |||
# I tend to be unconcerned with the morality of my actions. | |||
# I have used deceit or lied to get my way. | |||
# I tend to be callous or insensitive. | |||
# I have used flattery to get my way. | |||
# I tend to seek prestige or status. | |||
# I tend to be cynical. | |||
# I tend to exploit others toward my own end. | |||
# I tend to expect special favors from others. | |||
# I want others to pay attention to me. | |||
Thus it seems apparent that while personality does matter to women, it does not matter in the ways they claim. Contrary to popular claims that women just want a "nice, caring guy," in actual fact, they are most sexually attracted and aroused by the exact opposite - narcissistic, manipulative, and psychopathic men. | |||
This likely has a basis in evolutionary biology, as Dark Triad traits may have helped provide a competitive edge to men in difficult times, for example, by allowing a man to kill others for their resources. | |||
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* | * To explore the attractiveness of the DT personality to the other sex, 128 women rated created (male) characters designed to capture high DT facets of personality or a control personality. | ||
* Physicality was held constant. | |||
* Women rated the high DT character as significantly more attractive. | |||
* Psychopathic traits (lack of morality; interpersonal hostility) are beneficial to a short-term strategy and are correlated with unrestricted pattern of sexual behaviour. | |||
* The results of our study demonstrate that the Dark Triad male personality is attractive to women and this effect is not mediated by these men’s greater perceived Extraversion or Neuroticism. | |||
'''Reference''': | '''Reference''': | ||