Daniel N Jones
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 233529 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel N Jones |
| NOMBRES | Daniel N |
| APELLIDO | Jones |
| FIRMA | JONES D N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4766-4827 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Inoculating Against Moral Disengagement Creates Ethical Adherence for Narcissism
Increasing honesty is critical in modern society. Moral Disengagement Tactics (MDTs) enable individuals to engage in unethical behavior while avoiding self-criticism, making MDTs a form of self-persuasion. One way to prevent persuasion is inoculation. Across three experiments ( N = 972), two preregistered, we randomly assigned individuals to a code of ethics versus inoculation to MDTs condition. Study 1 ( n = 443) found that those high in narciss…
The (in)distinguishability of Machiavellianism and psychopathy? Discovering the daily dynamics
Differential Offending as Predicted by the Dark Triad
Psychopathy is a risk factor in offending. However, there are additional traits associated with interpersonal harm that are understudied in incarcerated populations. We examined associations between the Short Dark Triad (SD3; Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) and three types of past and current offenses (drug, violent, non-violent/non-drug) in an incarcerated Iranian sample of men and women. For women, the SD3 factor analytic results had…
Completing the Deficit Model of Psychopathy
Psychopathy has traditionally been defined through the presence of antisocial traits but could be defined through the deficit of prosocial traits. In a deficit model, honesty is the inverse of interpersonal manipulation, empathy is the inverse of callous affect, and conscientiousness is the inverse of erratic lifestyle. However, there is no theoretical inverse of antisocial behavior (ASB). We propose that this inverse is rule governance (RG). Aft…
Hiding your dark side
Making decisions affecting oneself versus others
Actions that financially benefit one person may present risk to another person. For example, the payment incentives of portfolio managers and investors are often asymmetrical such that actions that benefit a portfolio manager can pose financial risk to clients. Despite the presence and potential harm of these asymmetries, few have addressed the question of who exploits these asymmetries and how to mitigate potential harm. Our study examined the e…
Screening for dark personalities in Portugal
The Dark Tetrad refers to a cluster of four socially aversive and undesirable personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. The main aim of the present study was to validate the recently developed Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) scale among a sample of young adults (N = 429, M = 22.11 years, SD = 3.35, range = 18–42) from Portugal, composed of men (n = 192, M = 22.14 years, SD = 3.34, range = 18–35) and women (n = 237, M = 22…
Is Machiavellianism Dead or Dormant? The Perils of Researching a Secretive Construct
Assessing Deception Differences with Mimicry Deception Theory
Mimicry Deception Theory (MDT) argues that deception varies along a long- to short-term continuum. Long-term deception involves complex deception, community integration, slow resource extraction, and low detectability, whereas short-term deception is the opposite. To date, no self-report scale exists that assesses a dispositional orientation toward long-term deception. Across four studies, we developed and validated a Mimicry Deception Scale (MDS…
Screening for Dark Personalities
Consensus is emerging that the constellation of dark personalities should include the sadistic personality. To build a four-factor measure, we modified and extended the Short Dark Triad (SD3) measure to include sadism. A series of three studies yielded the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4), a four subscale inventory with 7 items per construct. Study 1 ( N = 868) applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to a diverse 48-item pool using data collected on MTu…
Network discovery and scanning strategies and the Dark Triad
Dark or disturbed
Research on the personality foundations of aggression typically implicates either (a) aspects of the so‐called “Dark Tetrad” or (b) severe mental disturbance (psychosis). The appearance of psychotic symptoms in general populations is termed schizotypy . We conducted two studies to compare the effects of dark personalities and schizotypy on aggression. Study 1 used standard inventories to investigate the overlap of Dark Tetrad traits with schizoty…
The Association between Psychopathy and Influencing Others to Use Substances
Background: Although a large body of research has examined the impact of peer influence on substance use, little is known about the psychology of who influences others to use substances and why. The Dark Triad is a set of personality traits that may inform the characteristics of people who influence others to use substances.Objective: The aim of the present two studies was to examine potential associations between Dark Triad personality traits, e…
Religious Overclaiming and Support for Religious Aggression
Agentic self-enhancement consists of self-protective and self-advancing tendencies that can lead to aggression, especially when challenged. Because self-enhancers often endorse aggression to defend or enhance the self-concept, religious self-enhancement should lead to endorsing aggression to defend or enhance one’s religion. We recruited three samples ( N = 969) from Mechanical Turk ( n = 409), Iran ( n = 351), and the U.S.–Mexico border region (…
The Short Dark Triad (SD3)
The dark triad is a term used to describe a constellation of three socially harmful personality traits: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. The main aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale, a brief measure of the dark triad, among a sample (N = 412) of male (n = 200) and female (n = 212) at-risk Portuguese youths. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the three-factor stru…
Machiavellian flexibility in negative mate retention
Among the Dark Triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism), Machiavellianism is uniquely associated with flexibility. This flexibility should result in the use of aggressive short‐term tactics only when they do not interfere with long‐term goals. Study 1 found that individuals high in Machiavellianism differed from those high in psychopathy with respect to retrospective accounts of negative mate retention tactics. Study 2 found a…
Duplicity among the dark triad
Although all 3 of the Dark Triad members are predisposed to engage in exploitative interpersonal behavior, their motivations and tactics vary. Here we explore their distinctive dynamics with 5 behavioral studies of dishonesty (total N = 1,750). All 3 traits predicted cheating on a coin-flipping task when there was little risk of being caught (Study 1). Only psychopathy predicted cheating when punishment was a serious risk (Study 2). Machiavellian…
Human Deception
The ‘Chasing Amy’ Bias in Past Sexual Experiences
Introducing the Short Dark Triad (SD3)
Three socially aversive traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—have been studied as an overlapping constellation known as the Dark Triad. Here, we develop and validate the Short Dark Triad (SD3), a brief proxy measure. Four studies (total N = 1,063) examined the structure, reliability, and validity of the subscales in both community and student samples. In Studies 1 and 2, structural analyses yielded three factors with the final 27 …
Behavioral Confirmation of Everyday Sadism
Past research on socially aversive personalities has focused on subclinical psychopathy, subclinical narcissism, and Machiavellianism—the “Dark Triad” of personality. In the research reported here, we evaluated whether an everyday form of sadism should be added to that list. Acts of apparent cruelty were captured using two laboratory procedures, and we showed that such behavior could be predicted with two measures of sadistic personality. Study 1…
The Core of Darkness
The Dark Triad consists of three overlapping but distinct personality variables: narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. To date, however, no research has empirically identified what leads these three variables to overlap or whether other variables share the same core. The present research addresses why and how dark personalities overlap. Drawing from classic work in psychopathy, Hare's Factor 1 or manipulation and callousness were found to…
What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine
The role of impulsivity in the Dark Triad of personality
Different Provocations Trigger Aggression in Narcissists and Psychopaths
Although previous research has demonstrated that ego-threatened narcissists react aggressively, no allowance was made for the overlap of subclinical narcissism with subclinical psychopathy. Nor is there research directly comparing the reactions of these two personalities to physical threat. To investigate these distinctions, the present study examined the degree to which narcissists and psychopaths respond with aggression to ego threat versus phy…
Duplicity among the dark triad
Although all 3 of the Dark Triad members are predisposed to engage in exploitative interpersonal behavior, their motivations and tactics vary. Here we explore their distinctive dynamics with 5 behavioral studies of dishonesty (total N = 1,750). All 3 traits predicted cheating on a coin-flipping task when there was little risk of being caught (Study 1). Only psychopathy predicted cheating when punishment was a serious risk (Study 2). Machiavellian…
The Short Dark Triad (SD3)
The dark triad is a term used to describe a constellation of three socially harmful personality traits: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. The main aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale, a brief measure of the dark triad, among a sample (N = 412) of male (n = 200) and female (n = 212) at-risk Portuguese youths. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the three-factor stru…
The ‘Chasing Amy’ Bias in Past Sexual Experiences
Screening for dark personalities in Portugal
The Dark Tetrad refers to a cluster of four socially aversive and undesirable personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. The main aim of the present study was to validate the recently developed Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) scale among a sample of young adults (N = 429, M = 22.11 years, SD = 3.35, range = 18–42) from Portugal, composed of men (n = 192, M = 22.14 years, SD = 3.34, range = 18–35) and women (n = 237, M = 22…
Dark or disturbed
Research on the personality foundations of aggression typically implicates either (a) aspects of the so‐called “Dark Tetrad” or (b) severe mental disturbance (psychosis). The appearance of psychotic symptoms in general populations is termed schizotypy . We conducted two studies to compare the effects of dark personalities and schizotypy on aggression. Study 1 used standard inventories to investigate the overlap of Dark Tetrad traits with schizoty…
Machiavellian flexibility in negative mate retention
Among the Dark Triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism), Machiavellianism is uniquely associated with flexibility. This flexibility should result in the use of aggressive short‐term tactics only when they do not interfere with long‐term goals. Study 1 found that individuals high in Machiavellianism differed from those high in psychopathy with respect to retrospective accounts of negative mate retention tactics. Study 2 found a…
What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine
Different Provocations Trigger Aggression in Narcissists and Psychopaths
Although previous research has demonstrated that ego-threatened narcissists react aggressively, no allowance was made for the overlap of subclinical narcissism with subclinical psychopathy. Nor is there research directly comparing the reactions of these two personalities to physical threat. To investigate these distinctions, the present study examined the degree to which narcissists and psychopaths respond with aggression to ego threat versus phy…
The role of impulsivity in the Dark Triad of personality
Behavioral Confirmation of Everyday Sadism
Past research on socially aversive personalities has focused on subclinical psychopathy, subclinical narcissism, and Machiavellianism—the “Dark Triad” of personality. In the research reported here, we evaluated whether an everyday form of sadism should be added to that list. Acts of apparent cruelty were captured using two laboratory procedures, and we showed that such behavior could be predicted with two measures of sadistic personality. Study 1…
The Core of Darkness
The Dark Triad consists of three overlapping but distinct personality variables: narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. To date, however, no research has empirically identified what leads these three variables to overlap or whether other variables share the same core. The present research addresses why and how dark personalities overlap. Drawing from classic work in psychopathy, Hare's Factor 1 or manipulation and callousness were found to…
What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine
Introducing the Short Dark Triad (SD3)
Three socially aversive traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—have been studied as an overlapping constellation known as the Dark Triad. Here, we develop and validate the Short Dark Triad (SD3), a brief proxy measure. Four studies (total N = 1,063) examined the structure, reliability, and validity of the subscales in both community and student samples. In Studies 1 and 2, structural analyses yielded three factors with the final 27 …
The ‘Chasing Amy’ Bias in Past Sexual Experiences
Human Deception
Machiavellian flexibility in negative mate retention
Among the Dark Triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism), Machiavellianism is uniquely associated with flexibility. This flexibility should result in the use of aggressive short‐term tactics only when they do not interfere with long‐term goals. Study 1 found that individuals high in Machiavellianism differed from those high in psychopathy with respect to retrospective accounts of negative mate retention tactics. Study 2 found a…
Duplicity among the dark triad
Although all 3 of the Dark Triad members are predisposed to engage in exploitative interpersonal behavior, their motivations and tactics vary. Here we explore their distinctive dynamics with 5 behavioral studies of dishonesty (total N = 1,750). All 3 traits predicted cheating on a coin-flipping task when there was little risk of being caught (Study 1). Only psychopathy predicted cheating when punishment was a serious risk (Study 2). Machiavellian…
The Short Dark Triad (SD3)
The dark triad is a term used to describe a constellation of three socially harmful personality traits: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. The main aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale, a brief measure of the dark triad, among a sample (N = 412) of male (n = 200) and female (n = 212) at-risk Portuguese youths. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the three-factor stru…
The Association between Psychopathy and Influencing Others to Use Substances
Background: Although a large body of research has examined the impact of peer influence on substance use, little is known about the psychology of who influences others to use substances and why. The Dark Triad is a set of personality traits that may inform the characteristics of people who influence others to use substances.Objective: The aim of the present two studies was to examine potential associations between Dark Triad personality traits, e…
Religious Overclaiming and Support for Religious Aggression
Agentic self-enhancement consists of self-protective and self-advancing tendencies that can lead to aggression, especially when challenged. Because self-enhancers often endorse aggression to defend or enhance the self-concept, religious self-enhancement should lead to endorsing aggression to defend or enhance one’s religion. We recruited three samples ( N = 969) from Mechanical Turk ( n = 409), Iran ( n = 351), and the U.S.–Mexico border region (…
Screening for Dark Personalities
Consensus is emerging that the constellation of dark personalities should include the sadistic personality. To build a four-factor measure, we modified and extended the Short Dark Triad (SD3) measure to include sadism. A series of three studies yielded the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4), a four subscale inventory with 7 items per construct. Study 1 ( N = 868) applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to a diverse 48-item pool using data collected on MTu…
Network discovery and scanning strategies and the Dark Triad
Dark or disturbed
Research on the personality foundations of aggression typically implicates either (a) aspects of the so‐called “Dark Tetrad” or (b) severe mental disturbance (psychosis). The appearance of psychotic symptoms in general populations is termed schizotypy . We conducted two studies to compare the effects of dark personalities and schizotypy on aggression. Study 1 used standard inventories to investigate the overlap of Dark Tetrad traits with schizoty…
Is Machiavellianism Dead or Dormant? The Perils of Researching a Secretive Construct
Assessing Deception Differences with Mimicry Deception Theory
Mimicry Deception Theory (MDT) argues that deception varies along a long- to short-term continuum. Long-term deception involves complex deception, community integration, slow resource extraction, and low detectability, whereas short-term deception is the opposite. To date, no self-report scale exists that assesses a dispositional orientation toward long-term deception. Across four studies, we developed and validated a Mimicry Deception Scale (MDS…
Hiding your dark side
Making decisions affecting oneself versus others
Actions that financially benefit one person may present risk to another person. For example, the payment incentives of portfolio managers and investors are often asymmetrical such that actions that benefit a portfolio manager can pose financial risk to clients. Despite the presence and potential harm of these asymmetries, few have addressed the question of who exploits these asymmetries and how to mitigate potential harm. Our study examined the e…
Screening for dark personalities in Portugal
The Dark Tetrad refers to a cluster of four socially aversive and undesirable personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. The main aim of the present study was to validate the recently developed Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) scale among a sample of young adults (N = 429, M = 22.11 years, SD = 3.35, range = 18–42) from Portugal, composed of men (n = 192, M = 22.14 years, SD = 3.34, range = 18–35) and women (n = 237, M = 22…
Differential Offending as Predicted by the Dark Triad
Psychopathy is a risk factor in offending. However, there are additional traits associated with interpersonal harm that are understudied in incarcerated populations. We examined associations between the Short Dark Triad (SD3; Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) and three types of past and current offenses (drug, violent, non-violent/non-drug) in an incarcerated Iranian sample of men and women. For women, the SD3 factor analytic results had…
Completing the Deficit Model of Psychopathy
Psychopathy has traditionally been defined through the presence of antisocial traits but could be defined through the deficit of prosocial traits. In a deficit model, honesty is the inverse of interpersonal manipulation, empathy is the inverse of callous affect, and conscientiousness is the inverse of erratic lifestyle. However, there is no theoretical inverse of antisocial behavior (ASB). We propose that this inverse is rule governance (RG). Aft…
Inoculating Against Moral Disengagement Creates Ethical Adherence for Narcissism
Increasing honesty is critical in modern society. Moral Disengagement Tactics (MDTs) enable individuals to engage in unethical behavior while avoiding self-criticism, making MDTs a form of self-persuasion. One way to prevent persuasion is inoculation. Across three experiments ( N = 972), two preregistered, we randomly assigned individuals to a code of ethics versus inoculation to MDTs condition. Study 1 ( n = 443) found that those high in narciss…
The (in)distinguishability of Machiavellianism and psychopathy? Discovering the daily dynamics
Psychology (24 obras) · Social Psychology (24 obras) · Personality (21 obras) · Personality Traits and Psychology (21 obras) · Psychopathy (20 obras) · Dark triad (17 obras) · Machiavellianism (17 obras) · Narcissism (15 obras) · Developmental psychology (12 obras) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (12 obras)