Facing a psychopath: Detecting the dark triad from emotionally-neutral faces, using prototypes from the Personality Faceaurus

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 648-654

  Holtzman, Nicholas S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark triad; Face; Faceaurus; Machiavellianism; Narcissism; Personality; Personality Faceaurus; Psychopathy; Thin slice; Zero acquaintance

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455141263     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Back M.D., Schmukle S.C., Egloff B. Why are narcissists so charming at first sight? Decoding the narcissism-popularity link at zero acquaintance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010, 98:132-145.
2. Berry D.S., McArthur L.Z. Perceiving character in faces: The impact of age-related craniofacial changes on social-perception. Psychological Bulletin 1986, 100:3-18.
3. Borkenau P., Brecke S., Mottig C., Paelecke M. Extraversion is accurately perceived after a 50-ms exposure to a face. Journal of Research in Personality 2009, 43:703-706.
4. Bradlee P.M., Emmons R.A. Locating narcissism within the interpersonal circumplex and the 5-factor model. Personality and Individual Differences 1992, 13:821-830.
5. Byrne R.W. Machiavellian intelligence. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 1996, 5:172-180.
6. Campbell W.K. When you love a man who loves himself 2005, Sourcebooks, Naperville, IL.
7. Campbell W.K., Bush C.P., Brunell A.B., Shelton J. Understanding the social costs of narcissism: The case of the tragedy of the commons. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2005, 31:1358-1368.
8. Carré J.M., McCormick C.M., Mondloch C.J. Facial structure is a reliable cue of aggressive behavior. Psychological Science 2009, 20:1194-1198.
9. Cheek J.M. Aggregation, moderator variables, and the validity of personality tests: A peer-rating study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1982, 43:1254-1269.
10. Christie R., Geis F.L. Studies in Machiavellianism 1970, Academic Press, NY.
11. Connolly J.J., Kavanagh E.J., Viswesvaran C. The Convergent Validity between Self and Observer Ratings of Personality: A meta-analytic review. International Journal of Selection and Assessment 2007, 15:110-117.
12. Curry O., Chesters M.J., Viding E. The psychopath's dilemma: The effects of psychopathic personality traits in one-shot games. Personality and Individual Differences 2011, 50:804-809.
13. Emmons R.A. Factor analysis and construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Journal of Personality Assessment 1984, 48:291-300.
14. Fowler K.A., Lilienfeld S.O., Patrick C.J. Detecting psychopathy from thin slices of behavior. Psychological Assessment 2009, 21:68-78.
15. Friedman J.N.W., Oltmanns T.F., Gleason M.E.J., Turkheimer E. Mixed impressions: Reactions of strangers to people with pathological personality traits. Journal of Research in Personality 2006, 40:395-410.
16. Funder D.C. On the accuracy of personality judgment: A realistic approach. Psychological Review 1995, 102:652-670.
17. Gangestad S.W., Simpson J.A. The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2000, 23:573-587.
18. Holtzman N.S., Strube M.J. The intertwined evolution of narcissism and short-term mating: An emerging hypothesis. The handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic personality disorder: Theoretical approaches, empirical findings, and treatments 2011, 210-220. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. W.K. Campbell, J.D. Miller (Eds.).
19. Holtzman N.S., Strube M.J. Narcissism and attractiveness. Journal of Research in Personality 2010, 44:133-136.
20. Jonason P.K., Li N.P., Webster G.D., Schmitt D.P. The dark triad: Facilitating a short-term mating strategy in men. European Journal of Personality 2009, 23:5-18.
21. Jonason P.K., Webster G.D. The dirty dozen: A concise measure of the dark triad. Psychological Assessment 2010, 22:420-432.
22. Lalumière M.L., Harris G.T., Rice M.E. Psychopathy and developmental instability. Evolution and Human Behavior 2001, 22:75-92.
23. Little A.C., Perrett D.I. Using composite images to assess accuracy in personality attribution to faces. [Article]. British Journal of Psychology 2007, 98:111-126.
24. Livesley W.J., Jang K.L., Jackson D.N., Vernon P.A. Genetic and environmental contributions to dimensions of personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry 1993, 150:1826-1831.
25. Lukaszewski A.W., Roney J.R. The origins of extraversion: Joint effects of facultative calibration and genetic polymorphism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2011, 37:409-421.
26. McHoskey J.W. Machiavellianism and sexuality: On the moderating role of biological sex. Personality and Individual Differences 2001, 31:779-789.
27. McHoskey J.W., Worzel W., Szyarto C. Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, 74:192-210.
28. Morf C.C., Rhodewalt F. Unraveling the paradoxes of narcissism: A dynamic self-regulatory processing model. Psychological Inquiry 2001, 12:177-196.
29. Neumann C.S., Hare R.D. Psychopathic traits in a large community sample: Links to violence, alcohol use, and intelligence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2008, 76:893-899.
30. Oltmanns T.F., Turkheimer E. Perceptions of self and others regarding pathological personality traits. Personality and Psychopathology 2006, 71-111. Guilford, New York. R.F. Krueger, J.L. Tackett (Eds.).
31. Paulhus D.L. Interpersonal and intrapsychic adaptiveness of trait self-enhancement: A mixed blessing?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, 74:1197-1208.
32. Paulhus, D. L., Neumann, C. F., & Hare, R. D. (in press). Manual for the Self-Report Psychopathy scale. Toronto: Multi-Health Systems.
33. Paulhus D.L., Williams K.M. The dark triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Journal of research in Personality 2002, 36:556-563.
34. Penton-Voak I.S., Pound N., Little A.C., Perrett D.I. Personality judgments from natural and composite facial images: More evidence for a " kernel of truth" in social perception. Social Cognition 2006, 24:607-640.
35. Perrett D.I., Lee K.J., Penton-Voak I., Rowland D., Yoshikawa S., Burt D.M., et al. Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness. Nature 1998, 394:884-887.
36. Raskin R., Terry H. A principal-components analysis of the narcissistic personality-inventory and further evidence of its construct-validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1988, 54:890-902.
37. Snyder M., Tanke E.D., Berscheid E. Social perception and interpersonal behavior: On self-fulfilling nature of social stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1977, 35:656-666.
38. Stirrat M., Perrett D.I. Valid facial cues to cooperation and trust. Psychological Science 2010, 21:349-354.
39. Todorov, A. (in press). Evaluating faces on social dimensions. In A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske & D. Prentice (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind: Oxford University Press.
40. Tooby J., Cosmides L. On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation. Journal of Personality 1990, 58:17-67.
41. Twenge J.M. Generation me: Why today's young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled - and more miserable than ever before 2006, Free Press, New York.
42. Twenge J.M., Campbell W.K. The narcissism epidemic: Living in the age of entitlement 2009, Free Press, New York.
43. Vazire S. Informant reports: A cheap, fast, and easy method for personality assessment. Journal of Research in Personality 2006, 40:472-481.
44. Vazire S. Who knows what about a person? The self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010, 98:281-300.
45. Vazire S., Carlson E.N. Self-knowledge of personality: Do people know themselves?. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2010, 4:605-620.
46. Vazire S., Naumann L.P., Rentfrow P.J., Gosling S.D. Portrait of a narcissist: Manifestations of narcissism in physical appearance. Journal of Research in Personality 2008, 42:1439-1447.
47. Vernon P.A., Villani V.C., Vickers L.C., Harris J.A. A behavioral genetic investigation of the dark triad and the Big 5. Personality and Individual Differences 2008, 44:445-452.
48. Yarkoni T. The abbreviation of personality, or how to measure 200 personality scales with 200 items. Journal of Research in Personality 2010, 44:363-373.
49. Zebrowitz L.A., Hall J.A., Murphy N.A., Rhodes G. Looking smart and looking good: Facial cues to intelligence and their origins. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2002, 28:238-249.
50. Zebrowitz L.A., Voinescu L., Collins M.A." Wide-eyed" and " crooked-faced": Determinants of perceived and real honesty across the life span. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 1996, 22(12):1258-1269.