Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad

B Bonfá-Araujo, AR Lima-Costa, N Hauck-Filho… - Personality and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Dark triads, tetrads, tents, and cores: Why navigate (research) the jungle of dark personality models without a compass (criterion)?

CM Kowalski, R Rogoza, DH Saklofske, JA Schermer - Acta Psychologica, 2021 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review summarizes and evaluates the present state of the Dark Triad
research literature (or more broadly, the dark personality trait literature), and as such serves …

Themes of the dark core of personality.

M Bader, J Hartung, BE Hilbig, I Zettler… - Psychological …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Enduring patterns of socially aversive behavior are ascribed to stable personality disorders
(such as narcissistic or antisocial tendencies) in clinical psychology or to so called “dark” …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the relationship between everyday sadism and aggression: Can subclinical sadistic traits predict …

L Thomas, V Egan - Aggression and violent behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Everyday sadism is unique among the dark personality traits that form the Dark
Tetrad. Whilst it shares the Dark Core of Personality with psychopathy, narcissism, and …

The Dark Tetrad, cybervictimization, and cyberbullying: The role of moral disengagement

A Gajda, M Moroń, M Królik, M Małuch, M Mraczek - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Cyberbullying is a form of antisocial online behaviors. Perpetration of intentional and
repeated harm inflicted through electronic devices is associated with dark personality traits …

Catching the catfish: Exploring gender and the Dark Tetrad of personality as predictors of catfishing perpetration

C Lauder, E March - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Catfishing, the act of deceiving and exploiting another person online, can have significant
negative impact on the target. To date, limited research has explored individual differences …

A multi-study investigation assessing the potential redundancy among the Dark Tetrad using a narrowband trait approach

CM Kowalski, RA Plouffe, KN Daljeet, C Trahair… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We investigated the putative redundancy of the Dark Tetrad (specifically, Machiavellianism-
psychopathy and sadism-psychopathy) through an examination of the differences between …

Associations of aversive ('dark') traits and affiliative ('light') traits with moral-dilemma judgments: A preregistered exploratory analysis using the CNI model

NL Ng, CS Neumann, DM Luke, B Gawronski - Journal of Research in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite people's capacity for both good and evil, scant research has jointly examined the
relations of affiliative and aversive traits with moral-dilemma judgments. Using the CNI …

Childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying perpetration: The role of dark personality traits

K Kircaburun, P Jonason, MD Griffiths… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Dark personality traits (ie, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, spitefulness, and
sadism) are associated with adverse childhood experiences and deviant online behaviors …

The impact of the Extraversion-Introversion personality traits and emotions in a moral decision-making task

Y Tao, Y Cai, C Rana, Y Zhong - Personality and Individual Differences, 2020 - Elsevier
Behavioural studies have previously examined the fundamental psychological processes
behind two moral dilemma types (eg, impersonal vs. personal dilemmas) across conditions …