With this meta-analytic review, we aimed to estimate the relationship that sadistic personality
has with the Dark Triad traits and, secondarily, describe the research on the Dark Tetrad …

We proposed and tested the Capone Hypothesis, which states that antagonistic individuals
will rate themselves as less good and more bad than other people rate themselves, but that …

Research suggests people want to change their normative personality traits—and they can
volitionally do so. However, studies have not yet addressed volitional change in pathological …

Objective Sadistic pleasure presumably incorporates processes that support an authentic
enjoyment of others' pain. However, antagonism confirmation theory, grounded in social …

A self-presentation framework for the Dark Triad (DT) constructs stipulates that each
construct encompasses chronic patterns of tactical identity-maintenance behaviors …

Introduction: Self-verification theory makes the controversial claim that people higher in
depression seek to confirm their depressed identity. Recent evidence suggests that people …

Although clinical psychologists have long speculated that antagonistic individuals may lack
insight into their moral deficits, some evidence has shown that more (vs. less) antagonistic …

People higher in sadism presumably experience pleasure upon witnessing another person's
suffering (ie, the “sadistic-pleasure mechanism”). However, some data suggests that this …

Recent research suggests presumptions about atheists' uncommitted mating strategy
causes atheists to seem less trustworthy, and that people who are more religious or espouse …

People higher (vs. lower) in agreeableness tend to provide moral judgments that are
indicative of a highly moral character, but the mechanisms underlying these judgments …