Bruno Bonfá-Araujo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 254773 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bruno Bonfá-Araujo |
| PRENOMES | Bruno |
| SOBRENOME | Bonfá-Araujo |
| ASSINATURA | BONFÁ-ARAUJO B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0702-9992 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Assessing Vulnerable and Antagonistic Traits Using the Five-Factor Model Measures
In this preregistered study, we evaluated whether the Five-Factor Model Antagonistic Triad Measure (FFM ATM) can adequately capture both traditional and vulnerable expressions of socially aversive (“Dark Triad”) personality traits. In a sample of 326 university students aged 18 to 24 (M = 18.39, SD = 0.85), we administered the FFM ATM, the Five-Factor Borderline Inventory–Super Short Form (FFBI-SSF), the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, th…
Beyond Religious Narcissistic Identification
Agnosticism and atheism are often grouped simply as nonreligious identities, yet emerging research highlights their distinct psychological profiles and social implications. Among these distinctions, collective narcissism – characterized by strong attachment to one’s group, exceptionalism, and grievance for recognition – offers a framework for understanding identity processes in both nonreligious groups. We examined whether agnostics and atheists …
Two Short Forms of the Criminogenic Cognitions Scale Among Community Youth
Criminogenic cognitions are considered very relevant variables for the development and manifestation of antisocial and delinquent behaviors in youth. However, short measures of criminogenic cognitions validated among youth samples are scarce. The aim of the present study was to develop two short one-dimensional versions of the Criminogenic Cognitions Scale (CCS) measure among male and female youth (N = 559 youth, M = 16.51 years, SD = 1.07, range…
Cross‐Cultural Validation of the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale in 7 Countries
This study examined the psychometric properties and cross‐cultural validity of the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS). A total of 2937 participants from Brazil, China, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States completed the 13‐item MCBS. Confirmatory factor analyses compared multiple factor structures (unidimensional, three‐factor, hierarchical, and bifactor), and measurement invariance was tested both across countrie…
Psychometric Examination of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder Self-Report (PSCD) Among an Adult Community Sample From Brazil
The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) is a promising novel scale that measures psychopathic traits and includes an additional conduct disorder factor that taps the antisocial dimension of psychopathy. The current study sought to broaden the application of PSCD by examining the factor structure, convergent and discriminant validity, and connections to delinquency in a young adult sample ( N = 450; M = 31.91 years, SD = 13.02 years) o…
Manipulation and Instability
Machiavellianism and borderline personality are known for influencing interpersonal dynamics through manipulative behaviors. Machiavellianism is characterized by calculated, egotistic, and callous manipulation, while borderline personality involves emotionally driven impulsive manipulation due to instability and fear of abandonment. In this study, we explored the relationships of the two constructs with respect to broader personality constructs. …
The Jangled Nature of Psychopathy and Machiavellianism
Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale‐Brazilian Portuguese
This study aimed to adapt the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS) to Brazilian Portuguese and to estimate validity evidence based on the internal structure and relationships with other variables and reliability. The sample consisted of 382 Brazilians aged between 18 and 71 ( M = 32.18, SD = 12.89), of which 68.06% were female. Through the content validity coefficient, the judges' analysis indicated the adequacy of the items. In addition, …
Could the Younger Be Darker? A Cross-Sectional Study on the Dark Triad Levels Across the Lifespan
Exploring a Darker Side of Personality
Digital Life Balance and Need for Online Social Feedback
In the contemporary digital era, the extensive integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) has significantly changed offline activities, including communication, shopping, and media consumption. This integration has been accelerated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, leading to increased reliance on ICT for work, education, socializing, and accessing essential services. Consequently, there is growing concern about the impact of ICT on …
Screening for Light Personalities in Portugal
The Light Triad of personality refers to three prosocial personality traits—Faith in Humanity, Humanism, and Kantianism—that promote the worth and dignity of other people, focus on ethical behavior and empathy, and confidence that other people are naturally good. The aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric properties of the Light Triad Scale (LTS)—Portuguese version. Our convenience sample consisted of 242 male and female particip…
The impact of passion for exercising on the perception of well-being during periods of social isolation
Objective of this study was to, based on a theoretical model, verify the associations between the variables passion, affect, satisfaction with life, and distress, the predictive power of the different types of passion on the perception of positive and negative affect, and the effect of this relation against the evaluation of psychological well-being and distress. Method Three hundred and fifty-nine participants aged between 18 and 70 years (M = 3…
Conflict in Love
The present study examined how the personality dimensions of the Dark Triad (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) predict infidelity intentions and jealousy and whether these variables predict conflict tactics used in relationships. Adult women (N = 567, 18–73 years old, Mage = 31.91; SD = 10.29) completed self-report scales assessing the Dark Triad traits, jealousy (i.e., cognitive, emotional, and behavioral), intentions towards …
Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale
The propensity to morally disengage can be an essential driver of unethical, antisocial, and criminal behavior. The present study examines the psychometric properties of the Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale (PMDS) among a convenience sample of 242 male and female participants (M = 30.19 years, SD = 12.78, range = 16–77) from Portugal. The expected one-factor structure obtained an adequate fit using confirmatory factor analysis. Internal cons…
Measuring the Dark Core of Personality in Portugal
The dark core of personality is a recently developed construct that encompasses the malevolent, antagonistic, and aversive side of human nature. The aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric properties of the dark core of personality D measure, namely D70, and its two shorter versions, D35 and D16, in Portugal. Two samples of Portuguese participants were used in the current study (N = 570, M = 35.42 years, SD = 11.41, range = 18–69;…
Depressed or satisfied? The relationship between the dark triad traits, depression, and life satisfaction
Measuring the dark core
The relationship between character strengths and the Dark Triad
This study aimed to verify the mean difference of the 24 character strengths considering the level of each character strength in relation to the Dark Triad of personality. A total of 284 people participated in the study, responding to the Character Strength Scale and to the Short Dark Triad. Among them, 71.5% were female, with a mean age of 29.06 years (SD = 9.73). For Machiavellianism and psychopathy, specific strengths are characterized by thei…
Seeing Things in Black‐and‐White
Dichotomous thinking is a propensity for individuals to understand events as opposites, in a binary way. There are currently two inventories that accurately measure this construct, the Dichotomous Thinking Inventory, and the Dichotomous Thinking in Eating Disorders Scale. The present study aimed to carry out a review process to compile all the empirical studies that have made use of either of these instruments. To achieve this goal, we carried ou…
If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”
Case files can show how aggressors use different explanations to reduce the seriousness of their crime. We aimed to identify and categorize a 2016 Brazilian case file from a perpetrator of femicide, based on moral disengagement theory. Content analysis yielded 47 verbalized excerpts, with 70 disengagement occurrences. The most frequently used mechanisms throughout the aggressor's speeches consisted of moral justification and blaming the victim he…
Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale
The propensity to morally disengage can be an essential driver of unethical, antisocial, and criminal behavior. The present study examines the psychometric properties of the Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale (PMDS) among a convenience sample of 242 male and female participants (M = 30.19 years, SD = 12.78, range = 16–77) from Portugal. The expected one-factor structure obtained an adequate fit using confirmatory factor analysis. Internal cons…
If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”
Case files can show how aggressors use different explanations to reduce the seriousness of their crime. We aimed to identify and categorize a 2016 Brazilian case file from a perpetrator of femicide, based on moral disengagement theory. Content analysis yielded 47 verbalized excerpts, with 70 disengagement occurrences. The most frequently used mechanisms throughout the aggressor's speeches consisted of moral justification and blaming the victim he…
Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale‐Brazilian Portuguese
This study aimed to adapt the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS) to Brazilian Portuguese and to estimate validity evidence based on the internal structure and relationships with other variables and reliability. The sample consisted of 382 Brazilians aged between 18 and 71 ( M = 32.18, SD = 12.89), of which 68.06% were female. Through the content validity coefficient, the judges' analysis indicated the adequacy of the items. In addition, …
Measuring the Dark Core of Personality in Portugal
The dark core of personality is a recently developed construct that encompasses the malevolent, antagonistic, and aversive side of human nature. The aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric properties of the dark core of personality D measure, namely D70, and its two shorter versions, D35 and D16, in Portugal. Two samples of Portuguese participants were used in the current study (N = 570, M = 35.42 years, SD = 11.41, range = 18–69;…
Measuring the dark core
If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”
Case files can show how aggressors use different explanations to reduce the seriousness of their crime. We aimed to identify and categorize a 2016 Brazilian case file from a perpetrator of femicide, based on moral disengagement theory. Content analysis yielded 47 verbalized excerpts, with 70 disengagement occurrences. The most frequently used mechanisms throughout the aggressor's speeches consisted of moral justification and blaming the victim he…
The relationship between character strengths and the Dark Triad
This study aimed to verify the mean difference of the 24 character strengths considering the level of each character strength in relation to the Dark Triad of personality. A total of 284 people participated in the study, responding to the Character Strength Scale and to the Short Dark Triad. Among them, 71.5% were female, with a mean age of 29.06 years (SD = 9.73). For Machiavellianism and psychopathy, specific strengths are characterized by thei…
Seeing Things in Black‐and‐White
Dichotomous thinking is a propensity for individuals to understand events as opposites, in a binary way. There are currently two inventories that accurately measure this construct, the Dichotomous Thinking Inventory, and the Dichotomous Thinking in Eating Disorders Scale. The present study aimed to carry out a review process to compile all the empirical studies that have made use of either of these instruments. To achieve this goal, we carried ou…
Depressed or satisfied? The relationship between the dark triad traits, depression, and life satisfaction
Measuring the dark core
Digital Life Balance and Need for Online Social Feedback
In the contemporary digital era, the extensive integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) has significantly changed offline activities, including communication, shopping, and media consumption. This integration has been accelerated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, leading to increased reliance on ICT for work, education, socializing, and accessing essential services. Consequently, there is growing concern about the impact of ICT on …
Screening for Light Personalities in Portugal
The Light Triad of personality refers to three prosocial personality traits—Faith in Humanity, Humanism, and Kantianism—that promote the worth and dignity of other people, focus on ethical behavior and empathy, and confidence that other people are naturally good. The aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric properties of the Light Triad Scale (LTS)—Portuguese version. Our convenience sample consisted of 242 male and female particip…
The impact of passion for exercising on the perception of well-being during periods of social isolation
Objective of this study was to, based on a theoretical model, verify the associations between the variables passion, affect, satisfaction with life, and distress, the predictive power of the different types of passion on the perception of positive and negative affect, and the effect of this relation against the evaluation of psychological well-being and distress. Method Three hundred and fifty-nine participants aged between 18 and 70 years (M = 3…
Conflict in Love
The present study examined how the personality dimensions of the Dark Triad (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) predict infidelity intentions and jealousy and whether these variables predict conflict tactics used in relationships. Adult women (N = 567, 18–73 years old, Mage = 31.91; SD = 10.29) completed self-report scales assessing the Dark Triad traits, jealousy (i.e., cognitive, emotional, and behavioral), intentions towards …
Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale
The propensity to morally disengage can be an essential driver of unethical, antisocial, and criminal behavior. The present study examines the psychometric properties of the Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale (PMDS) among a convenience sample of 242 male and female participants (M = 30.19 years, SD = 12.78, range = 16–77) from Portugal. The expected one-factor structure obtained an adequate fit using confirmatory factor analysis. Internal cons…
Measuring the Dark Core of Personality in Portugal
The dark core of personality is a recently developed construct that encompasses the malevolent, antagonistic, and aversive side of human nature. The aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric properties of the dark core of personality D measure, namely D70, and its two shorter versions, D35 and D16, in Portugal. Two samples of Portuguese participants were used in the current study (N = 570, M = 35.42 years, SD = 11.41, range = 18–69;…
Psychometric Examination of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder Self-Report (PSCD) Among an Adult Community Sample From Brazil
The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) is a promising novel scale that measures psychopathic traits and includes an additional conduct disorder factor that taps the antisocial dimension of psychopathy. The current study sought to broaden the application of PSCD by examining the factor structure, convergent and discriminant validity, and connections to delinquency in a young adult sample ( N = 450; M = 31.91 years, SD = 13.02 years) o…
Manipulation and Instability
Machiavellianism and borderline personality are known for influencing interpersonal dynamics through manipulative behaviors. Machiavellianism is characterized by calculated, egotistic, and callous manipulation, while borderline personality involves emotionally driven impulsive manipulation due to instability and fear of abandonment. In this study, we explored the relationships of the two constructs with respect to broader personality constructs. …
The Jangled Nature of Psychopathy and Machiavellianism
Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale‐Brazilian Portuguese
This study aimed to adapt the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS) to Brazilian Portuguese and to estimate validity evidence based on the internal structure and relationships with other variables and reliability. The sample consisted of 382 Brazilians aged between 18 and 71 ( M = 32.18, SD = 12.89), of which 68.06% were female. Through the content validity coefficient, the judges' analysis indicated the adequacy of the items. In addition, …
Could the Younger Be Darker? A Cross-Sectional Study on the Dark Triad Levels Across the Lifespan
Exploring a Darker Side of Personality
Assessing Vulnerable and Antagonistic Traits Using the Five-Factor Model Measures
In this preregistered study, we evaluated whether the Five-Factor Model Antagonistic Triad Measure (FFM ATM) can adequately capture both traditional and vulnerable expressions of socially aversive (“Dark Triad”) personality traits. In a sample of 326 university students aged 18 to 24 (M = 18.39, SD = 0.85), we administered the FFM ATM, the Five-Factor Borderline Inventory–Super Short Form (FFBI-SSF), the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, th…
Beyond Religious Narcissistic Identification
Agnosticism and atheism are often grouped simply as nonreligious identities, yet emerging research highlights their distinct psychological profiles and social implications. Among these distinctions, collective narcissism – characterized by strong attachment to one’s group, exceptionalism, and grievance for recognition – offers a framework for understanding identity processes in both nonreligious groups. We examined whether agnostics and atheists …
Two Short Forms of the Criminogenic Cognitions Scale Among Community Youth
Criminogenic cognitions are considered very relevant variables for the development and manifestation of antisocial and delinquent behaviors in youth. However, short measures of criminogenic cognitions validated among youth samples are scarce. The aim of the present study was to develop two short one-dimensional versions of the Criminogenic Cognitions Scale (CCS) measure among male and female youth (N = 559 youth, M = 16.51 years, SD = 1.07, range…
Cross‐Cultural Validation of the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale in 7 Countries
This study examined the psychometric properties and cross‐cultural validity of the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS). A total of 2937 participants from Brazil, China, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States completed the 13‐item MCBS. Confirmatory factor analyses compared multiple factor structures (unidimensional, three‐factor, hierarchical, and bifactor), and measurement invariance was tested both across countrie…
Psychology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Personality (13 obras) · Personality Traits and Psychology (11 obras) · Clinical Psychology (9 obras) · Big Five personality traits (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Dark triad (6 obras) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (6 obras) · Psychopathy (6 obras)