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The Dark Triad Traits from a Life History Perspective in Six Countries

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, August 2017
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Title
The Dark Triad Traits from a Life History Perspective in Six Countries
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01476
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Peter K. Jonason, Joshua D. Foster, Marina S. Egorova, Oksana Parshikova, Árpád Csathó, Atsushi Oshio, Valdiney V. Gouveia

Abstract

Work on the Dark Triad traits has benefited from the use of a life history framework but it has been limited to primarily Western samples and indirect assessments of life history strategies. Here, we examine how the Dark Triad traits (i.e., psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism) relate to two measures of individual differences in life history strategies. In Study 1 (N = 937), we replicated prior observed links between life history strategies, as measured by the Mini-K, and the Dark Triad traits using samples recruited from three countries. In Study 2 (N = 1032), we measured life history strategies using the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale and correlated it with the Dark Triad traits in samples recruited from three additional countries. While there was some variability across participants' sex and country, the results were generally consistent in that psychopathy and (to a lesser extent) Machiavellianism were related to faster life history strategies and narcissism was related to slower life history strategies. These results add cross-cultural data and the use of two measures of life history speed to understand the Dark Triad traits from a life history perspective.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 10 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 9%
Professor 5 6%
Other 17 20%
Unknown 24 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 35 41%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Linguistics 2 2%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 32 38%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2020.
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#4,935,641
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#8,294
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#77,906
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#207
of 594 outputs
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