the dark triad
for - definition - dark triad - Narcissism (grandiosity, entitlement, self-adoration), - Machiavellianism (manipulative, strategic self-interest, callousness), and - Psychopathy (impulsivity, lack of empathy/remorse, antisocial behavior).
So what you end up having is in positions of power that are particularly dangerous, psychopaths are much more likely to seek those positions of power because they don't view the danger as a threat to them.
One of the interesting things about my job is I go around the world, and sometimes I sit down with former heads of state in authoritarian countries, people who basically were dictators 01:02:25 or despots until a few years ago. And what's striking about these people is that they have basically inhabited the ideal world for a Machiavellian narcissistic psychopath, somebody with the dark triad traits.
for the most part, if you're high on the psychopathy score, you're usually pretty high on the narcissism and Machiavellian score as well.
dark triad traits
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