Toward a Taxonomy of Dark Personalities

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 421-426

  Paulhus, Delroy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dark Tetrad; Dark Triad; everyday sadism; Machiavellianism; subclinical narcissism; subclinical psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919448671     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414547737     Document Type: Article

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