Nine Traits of The Dark Personality

The Dark Personality consists of different traits such as narcissism, sadism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. People with Dark Personality also have cognitive empathy, sometimes referred to as Dark Empathy. Researchers Zettler, Moshagen and Hilbeg found a common tendency with all the traits and called it the D-Factor. These tendencies, to different degrees include being selfish, egotistical,callous, manipulative, lying, cruel and being spiteful and resentful.

In this video Darren Magee outlines the nine characteristics of the dark personality and looks at how these traits manifest when co-occuring together.

00:00 Intro
00:34 The D Factor
01:01 Different motivations
02:11 Egoism
02:45 Machiavellianism
03:29 Moral Disengagement
03:52 Narcissism
04:24 Psychological Entitlement
04:42 Psychopathy
05:10 Sadism
05:35 Self Interest
06:09 Spitefulness
06:44 When they co-occur together
08:33 Can you help someone with the D Factor?

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