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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''', & '''Psychopathy'''. The "Dirty Dozen" is a scoring tool | The dark triad is defined as: '''Narcissism''', '''Manipulativeness''', & '''Psychopathy'''. The "Dirty Dozen" is a scoring tool for quickly quantifying the Dark Triad: | ||
# I tend to manipulate others to get my way. | # I tend to manipulate others to get my way. | ||
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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:''' |