z-logo
Premium
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.

This content is not available in your region!

Continue researching here.

Having issues? You can contact us here
Accelerating Research

Address

John Eccles House
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom