Measuring malevolence: Quantitative issues surrounding the Dark Triad of personality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-121

  Furnham, Adrian ^a,b   Richards, Steven ^a   Rangel, Luis ^c   Jones, Daniel N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark Triad; Machiavellianism; Narcissism; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901247161     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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