#DarkTriads

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-06-14

@kinetix

I have been looking at for some years now (on and off.)
They dominate most people's lives. It is so amazing, that even psychogists sometimes have not heard of them.

If you start with my oldest linked article (a short one,) many things will fall into place.

@Crispius

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-06-14

@kinetix @Crispius

👉Compulsory testing for public officials👈
*Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the *

(12/12)

...of millions of people and there progeny would have lived, making their, now lost forever, contributions to mankind. --7% , you say? Well, yes, but using the aptitude tests, most could have been filtered out, I'd reply. 😉

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The last mentioned article is a :

theconversation.com/how-to-sto

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-02-12

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_

/ articles

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...--> see also the titles of the references below "Dark Tetrads...":

"Examining the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) Across Models, Correlates, and Gender"

"The Dark is Rising: Contrasting the Dark Triad and Light Triad on Measures of Political Ambition and Participation"

"The tangled webs we wreak: Examining the structure of aggressive personality using psychometric networks"

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-02-12

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_

/ articles

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...observational data, the dark subtype was most prevalent and associated with longer tenure in political office, though less legislative success. Results suggest that human nature reflects both light and dark features, serving affiliative (pro-social) and dominance (pro-self) functions, 👉 with subtype prevalence varying considerably based on profession."👈 1)

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1)
sciencedirect.com/science/arti

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-02-12

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_

/ articles

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"Yes, one in fourteen is a
Dark Triads counted for about one in 14 people [7%] in an international population 1) sample, a proportion that means all of us will meet them on a regular basis in love, in work, in politics, and—most obviously—on social media. " 2)

2)
archive.md/NjmrS#selection-969

"However, in a third sample of U.S. Senators (N = 143), based on...

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-02-12

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_

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...the Chinese court of the time, would-be official had to face hard tests designed by to sort out the , as we would call them today.

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-02-12

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_

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Still not sure what the abbreviation stands for, but you seem to be using it synonymously for .

An expert on recently pointed me to this key figure in history:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heshen

He seems to have been the most corrupt in history--so far.

Your conclusion is age-old wisdom for the Chinese. A friend of mine recently mentioned this:

mastodon.net2o.de/@forthy42/11

At...

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-02-12

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_

No, not quite. - If you check into the article, a becomes a if a person also is a , too.

In other words, a will be a subset of a , but not all (quite a few, actually) will be , too. ,)

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2024-09-28

@Simone21 @mina

(3/n)

...streben. Es geht ihnen nicht darum, objektiv gut leben zu kennen, sonder darum, möglichst viel Macht auszuüben.

Nun könnte man denken, es gibt davon doch recht wenig.

Leider ist dem nicht so. Es ist ein überraschend hoher Teil der Menschheit derart veranlagt. Ich würde v.a. () dazuzählen.--Es sind ca. 7% der Bevölkerung, einer von vierzehn. 1)

Ich drehe das gerade mal in einem Bereich, den wir alle kennen:
Von 28 Schulkindern in...

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