Do Bad Guys Get Ahead or Fall Behind? Relationships of the Dark Triad of Personality With Objective and Subjective Career Success

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 113-121

  Spurk, Daniel ^a   Keller, Anita C ^a   Hirschi, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

career success; Dark Triad; Machiavellianism; narcissism; psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957810382     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550615609735     Document Type: Article

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