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- In a recent study, psychologists have identified the driving force behind the malevolent tendencies of human nature — like psychopathy, narcissism, egoism, sadism, spitefulness, and more.
- It's called the D factor, or the Dark Factor of Personality.
- In a series of four separate studies, Zettler and fellow researchers surveyed participants with questions designed to measure their levels of nine distinct dark personality traits.
- The results suggest that while these dark traits are all distinct, they all overlap to some extent, owing to the central core darkness factor, D, which reveals itself in different ways in different people.
- The team has set up an online portal where you can measure your own D score via a questionnaire.
Psychologists call it the dark triad: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature – psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.
But the truth goes deeper, and darker. There's also egoism, sadism, spitefulness, and more. And behind this rogues gallery of all our worst inclinations on the surface, a central, common core of human darkness lies, according to new research.
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