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The dark cube: dark and light character profiles.

Danilo Garcia¹, Patricia Rosenberg²

¹Blekinge Center for Competence, Blekinge County Council, Karlskrona, Sweden; Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Network for Empowerment and Well-Being, University of Gothenburg, Lyckeby, Sweden; Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

|March 12, 2016

Summary

The Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) show distinct links to personality. Machiavellianism and psychopathy correlate with low self-directedness and cooperativeness, unlike narcissism.

Keywords:

Character Cooperativeness Dark Triad Dark cube Machiavellianism Narcissism Psychopathy Self-directedness Self-transcendence Unification vs. uniqueness debate

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Dark Psychology

Background:

Research on the Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) shows inconsistent associations with temperament traits.
A common core of uncooperativeness is observed across these malevolent character traits.
Debate exists whether the Dark Triad is a unified construct or distinct traits.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how individuals high in each Dark Triad trait differ in Cloninger's "light" character traits: self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence.
To explore associations between individuals' dark and light character profiles.
To propose a "dark cube" model for comparing individuals across eight dark profiles.

Main Methods:

997 participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk completed the Short Dark Triad and Short Character Inventory.
Participants were categorized into eight dark and eight light profiles based on trait scores.
Three-way interaction regression analyses and t-tests were used to compare light traits across dark profiles.

Main Results:

High Machiavellianism and psychopathy correlated with low self-directedness and cooperativeness.
High narcissism correlated with high self-directedness.
Individuals low in dark traits were more cooperative; those high in dark traits were less cooperative.

Conclusions:

Machiavellianism and psychopathy share a unified, non-agentic, and uncooperative character profile.
Narcissism presents a unique profile with high agency, and potentially high spirituality when other dark traits are also high.
The Dark Triad may function more as a dyad (Machiavellianism/psychopathy vs. narcissism) based on its associations with positive character traits.