The dark side of love and life satisfaction: Associations with intimate relationships, psychopathy and Machiavellianism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 228-233

  Ali, Farah ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Life satisfaction; Machiavellianism; Primary psychopathy; Relationships; Secondary psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960892400     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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