The Dark Triad Of Personality Analysis

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1. Introduction The Dark Triad of personality was first introduced in 2002 by Paulhus and Wallace, it essentially referred to the expression of three subclinical traits: Narcissism, Psychopathy and Machiavellianism; that are characterised by malevolent qualities, that strongly influence, manifest, and predict one’s personality. With the evolutionary effects of social networking sites, people’s use of social media has become a mean of measuring the dark triad of personality or sometimes the linking causation of such personality traits. This paper will critically discuss the role and extent of the dark triad in people’s use of social media. Denoted by the discussion of the unique personality …show more content…

There is narcissism: narcist are “egocentric individuals with a sense of grandiosity, dominance, and entitlement who perceive themselves as smarter, more attractive, and better than others, but are still marked by insecurity “(Gabriel, M.T et al. (1994) In other words, someone who expresses vanity (Campbell, W. K., & Miller, J. D. (2011)) Secondly, there is psychopathy, in which a psychopath is described to lack empathy and often engage in impulsive and thrill-seeking behaviours regardless of the cost to others (Jonason & Krause, 2013). Moreover, characteristics of lack of empathy and anxiety, interpersonal manipulation, high impulsivity and thrill-seeking (Paulhus,D.L., & Williams, K.M. (2002) And thirdly, Machiavellianism is characterised by a tendency to deceive and manipulate other people, usually for personal gain. Moreover, (Wilson, D. S. et al, (1996) aligned Machiavellianism with the willingness to “detect” in multi-strategic games (e.g., maximising payoff for the self at the expense of another in a non-zero-sum game/ manipulating for manipulation’s sake)” (Havvley, P. H., 2006). Furthermore, it includes “deception in interpersonal interactions, selflessness, cynicism and pragmatic morality” (Paulhus, D. L., & Williams, K. M. …show more content…

That with the affordances of today’s CMC’s technologies such as social media networking sites, like, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube, there is a lead to the manifestation of these

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