Dark Tetrad personality traits and the propensity to lie across multiple contexts

Forsyth, Loch; Anglim, Jeromy; March, Evita; Bilobrk, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110792

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“…Research has also identified how individuals with higher Dark Tetrad traits have a higher propensity to lie (Forsyth et al, 2021). There can also be degrees of deceptiveness, varying based on the quantity, quality, manner, and relevance of information communicated (see also Information Manipulation Theory;McCornack, 1992).…”

Section: Lying Can Be Creative Toomentioning

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Affective Factors in Dark Creativity

Kapoor¹,

Mange²

2023

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Dark creativity comprises novel actions that lead to deliberate or unintentional harm. Although recent research has begun examining the construct more widely, there exist several gaps in scholarship. One such area is the influence, association, and role of affective factors in determining whether and to what extent an entity engages in dark creativity. After introducing concepts like negative and malevolent creativity, this chapter reviews the existing literature on the link between affective factors and creativity. Thereafter, the features of dark personality traits, like psychopathy, are examined with reference to affective considerations such as low empathy in producing original harm. Owing to the relationship between dark creativity and moral concerns, we also examine how moral emotions like guilt and shame (or lack thereof) may contribute to an understanding of such creativity. The chapter concludes with suggestions for future research and avenues for interdisciplinary studies.

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Section: Lying Can Be Creative Toomentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective Factors in Dark Creativity

Kapoor¹,

Mange²

2023

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“…This balance may relate to certain personality traits. The dark triad comprises subclinical psychopathy, machevillianism, and narcissism, which all involve deliberate and callous manipulation of others [14][15][16][17][18][19] . Subclinical psychopathy as well as machevellian traits associate with greater manipulation and deception whereas narcissism and borderline personality disorder (BPD) [20][21][22] may involve lying to one's self in order to deceive others [self-deception] 11,16,20,[23][24][25][26] .…”

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Choosing to Lie: Strategic and Pathological Deception

Corlett

Rossi-Goldthorpe

2023

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Humans lie to one another frequently with local and global consequences. Here we examine and operationalize the choice to lie using a mathematical model which we fit to participant behavior. This model combines perceptions of exploitability and fairness attitudes to explore the interaction between two types of utility: instrumental utility and moral utility. These utilities differed in concert with individual differences in participants’ behavioral traits, and those differences underwrote lies with distinct motivations. Strategic deception – wherein the lie benefits the individual - was common amongst people with elevated subclinical psychopathic traits in the absence of paranoia. It was driven by differences in instrumental utility. Whereas pathological deception – which has no apparent economic or strategic benefit – was common among highly paranoid participants (who also had elevated scores on dark triad personality traits) and was governed by the moral utility of the lie. They lied for little apparent benefit because they failed to modulate their fairness attitudes in line with the decision context. These data challenge accounts of deception that suggest deceiving oneself is a prerequisite to successful lying. They also oppose accounts of psychopathology that connect psychopathic traits to pathological lying, and theories that implicate strategic social decision-making dysfunction in paranoia. More broadly, these data highlight the importance of individual differences in efforts to mitigate deception, which have thus far, largely focused on incentive structures and decision architectures.

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“…Although these four personality characteristics describe persons who are prone to cruel behavior and abusing others, each one has a distinct profile. 7 Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, pride, egotism, and a lack of empathy. Machiavellianism is characterized by the manipulation and exploitation of others, and absence of morality, unemotional callousness, and a high level of self-interest.…”

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Compassionate Society and Empathic Civilization: Utopia or Transformative Idea for Better Future

Jakovljević¹

2023

Science, Art and Religion

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Progressive thoughts rest, first, on the value of empathyputting oneself in other people's shoes, seeing the world through their eyes, and therefore caring about them. The second principle is acting on that care, taking responsibility both for oneself and others, the social as well as individual responsibility. The third is acting to make oneself, the country, and the world better"-George Lakoff https:// cultureofempathy.com From time to time, there comes a time when we should seriously ask ourselves and ponder what authentic human nature is, what is new normality, whether wars are our fate and whether we must be prisoners of selfishness and hate. Many people believe that man is evolving, that science and technology will bring us to a bright future, and that the majority of humans deep inside tend and wish to do good,

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Dark Tetrad personality traits and the propensity to lie across multiple contexts

Cited by 25 publications

References 39 publications

Affective Factors in Dark Creativity

Affective Factors in Dark Creativity

Choosing to Lie: Strategic and Pathological Deception

Compassionate Society and Empathic Civilization: Utopia or Transformative Idea for Better Future

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