On love and darkness: The Dark Triad and mate retention behaviors in a non-Western culture

Chegeni, Razieh; Pirkalani, Roshanak Khodabakhsh; Dehshiri, Gholamreza

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.10.007

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“…Third, the current work did not reveal sex differences in narcissism, but conclusions on these findings should be drawn with cautions, since the number of males and females were not equal in the current sample. Because previous studies have identified sex differences in narcissism and neural correlates (Jauk et al, ; Tschanz, Morf, & Turner, ; Yang et al, ; but see also Chegeni, Pirkalani, & Dehshiri, ), future studies are needed to address this issue with comparable number of males and females. Fourth, we did not identify reliable prediction of narcissism from negative network strengths across different feature selection thresholds, and the reason for the null findings remains to be elucidated.…”

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Individualized prediction of trait narcissism from whole‐brain resting‐state functional connectivity

Feng

Yuan

Geng

et al. 2018

Human Brain Mapping

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Narcissism is one of the most fundamental personality traits in which individuals in general population exhibit a large heterogeneity. Despite a surge of interest in examining behavioral characteristics of narcissism in the past decades, the neurobiological substrates underlying narcissism remain poorly understood. Here, we addressed this issue by applying a machine learning approach to decode trait narcissism from whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC). Resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) data were acquired for a large sample comprising 155 healthy adults, each of whom was assessed for trait narcissism. Using a linear prediction model, we examined the relationship between whole-brain RSFC and trait narcissism. We demonstrated that the machine-learning model was able to decode individual trait narcissism from RSFC across multiple neural systems, including functional connectivity between and within limbic and prefrontal systems as well as their connectivity with other networks. Key nodes that contributed to the prediction model included the amygdala, prefrontal and anterior cingulate regions that have been linked to trait narcissism. These findings remained robust using different validation procedures. Our findings thus demonstrate that RSFC among multiple neural systems predicts trait narcissism at the individual level.

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Individualized prediction of trait narcissism from whole‐brain resting‐state functional connectivity

Feng

Yuan

Geng

et al. 2018

Human Brain Mapping

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“…In Study 4a, a community sample of 205 participants (54.1% women) was selected from Tehran. Potential participants were approached by a researcher in public places in Tehran and were invited to complete a set of questionnaires (some reported elsewhere; Chegeni, Pirkalani, & Dehshiri, 2018), including an open-ended question about the concept of Qeirat.…”

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Foundations of morality in Iran

Atari

Graham

Dehghani

2020

Evolution and Human Behavior

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Most moral psychology research has been conducted in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. As such, moral judgment, as a psychological phenomenon, might be known to researchers only by its WEIRD manifestations. Here, we start with evaluating Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, and follow up by building a bottom-up model of moral values, in Iran, a non-WEIRD, Muslim-majority, understudied cultural setting. In six studies (N = 1,945) we examine the structural validity of the Persian translation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, compare moral foundations between Iran and the US, conduct qualitative interviews regarding moral values, expand the nomological network of "Qeirat" as a culture-specific set of moral values, and investigate the pragmatic validity of "Qeirat" in Iranian culture. Our findings suggest an additional moral foundation in Iran, above and beyond the five foundations identified by MFT. Specifically, qualitative studies highlighted the role of "Qeirat" values in Iranian culture, which are comprised of guarding and protectiveness of female kin, romantic partners, broader family, and country. Significant cultural differences in moral values are argued in this work to follow from the psychological systems that, when brought to interact with particular socio-ecological environments, produce different moral structures. This evolutionarily-informed, cross-cultural, mixed-methods research sheds light on moral concerns and their cultural, demographic, and individual-difference correlates in Iran.

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“…The processes underlying human mate choice and people’s preferences in choosing a long-term romantic partner are complex (Conroy-Beam & Buss, 2016). Although most of the literature on human mating psychology relies heavily on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies (WEIRD; Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010), psychologists have recently begun to explore mating psychology in Middle Eastern Muslim-majority countries (e.g., Chaudhary, Al-Shawaf, & Buss, 2018; Chegeni, Pirkalani, & Dehshiri, 2018). Using a recently developed multidimensional model of long-term mate preferences in Iran (Atari, 2017), we present, and make publicly available, data from three Muslim-majority countries (Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey), examine preregistered hypotheses about sex differences in mate preferences in these cultures, and investigate Big Five predictors of mate preferences in each culture.…”

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Mate Preferences in Three Muslim-Majority Countries: Sex Differences and Personality Correlates

Atari

Chaudhary

Al-Shawaf

2019

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Cross-cultural research on long-term mate preferences in Muslim-majority countries is scarce. The research described here aims to examine the KASER (kindness/dependability, attractiveness/sexuality, status/resources, education/intelligence, and religiosity/chastity) model of mate preferences in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey ( N = 1,089). We examined structural validity, measurement invariance between men and women, sex differences, cultural differences, and Big Five personality correlates of these dimensions of mate preferences. Findings supported preregistered hypotheses regarding sex differences in mate preferences. Multilevel models suggested that the magnitude of sex differences was invariant across cultures. Personality correlates of mate preferences varied across cultures, but agreeableness consistently predicted the preference for kind and dependable partners across cultures. In sum, sex differences in mate preferences within and across three Muslim-majority countries described here replicate previous findings, but evidence for personality correlates of mate preferences is mixed, variable across cultures, and in need of further examination in non-Western samples.

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On love and darkness: The Dark Triad and mate retention behaviors in a non-Western culture

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Individualized prediction of trait narcissism from whole‐brain resting‐state functional connectivity

Individualized prediction of trait narcissism from whole‐brain resting‐state functional connectivity

Foundations of morality in Iran

Mate Preferences in Three Muslim-Majority Countries: Sex Differences and Personality Correlates

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