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Anonymous Dude's avatar

I always wonder about cases where one is high and the other two are low. The one time I did this I wound up with very low narcissism and psychopathy and high machiavellianism--I'm harmless, but *very* suspicious and cynical.

Blue Vir's avatar

Enjoyable read

John Raisor's avatar

No tetrad? The addition of sadism?

Sebastian Jensen's avatar

>No tetrad?

Only vaguely heard of the addition of sadism. But it integrates pretty well into the hypothesis, as sadism would make engaging in a fast life-history and extractive strategy easier.

Anonymous Dude's avatar

I was aware of that one. Low sadism and high rest of the dark triad are probably business types who are completely cold-blooded; sadism's actually maladaptive as you make more enemies than you otherwise would. High sadism and low dark triad traits are all those kink doms who have to find a masochist first.