How the Dark Triad Personality Makes Moral Decisions

  The dark triad personality traits are narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. These individuals are highly conflictive in their interpersonal relationships. Moreover, they find it difficult to identify their feelings, since they either completely lack or possess little empathy. In addition, this type of personality tends to be incapable of doing anything altruistically in order to make others feel comfortable and at ease. In fact, they exhibit deficits in prosocial behavior. Recently, the Center for Research in Health Technologies and Services (Portugal) conducted a study. It analyzed the relationship between the dark triad personality and moral decision-making. Before discussing this study,…