The affective and cognitive empathic nature of the dark triad of personality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 794-799

  Wai, Michael ^a   Tiliopoulos, Niko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affective empathy; Cognitive empathy; Dark triad; Machiavellianism; Narcissism; Personality disorders; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858153313     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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