Malicious mouths? The Dark Triad and motivations for gossip

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-4

  Lyons, Minna T ^a   Hughes, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DarkTriad; Gossip; Machiavellianism; Motivations; Narcissism; Primary psychopathy; Secondary psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921875134     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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