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Dark personality profiles: Estimating the cluster structure of the Dark Triad
Author(s) -
Garcia Danilo,
MacDonald Shane
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
psych journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2046-0260
pISSN - 2046-0252
DOI - 10.1002/pchj.175
Subject(s) - dark triad , cluster (spacecraft) , personality , cluster analysis , population , dark chocolate , astrophysics , physics , computer science , psychology , psychopathy , artificial intelligence , biology , social psychology , medicine , environmental health , programming language , food science
We estimated the number of possible dark personality profiles in a large population ( N = 18,088) using a subtractive clustering method, which suggested three cluster or dark personality profiles: high malevolent, intermediate malevolent, and low malevolent or benevolent. While the three profiles differed significantly in each dark trait, there was a considerably large cluster overlap.