The combination of Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy are referred to as the ‘dark triad’ of socially undesirable personality (Paulhus & Williams, 2002), and the three malevolent traits attract a huge attention in the socially aversive personalities. There is a general and common argument in our society that arguing whether these three constructs are equivalent or distinct. They are all negative and bad traits for human beings. Therefore, it could be hard to indicate the differences among them in general. In my opinion, the three personalities Machiavellianism, Narcissism and Psychopathy of the “dark triad” are strongly relevant and equivalent in aspect of self-promotion, emotional coldness and aggressiveness.
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By advocating manipulation, self-interest and deception, Machiavellianism tend to place a whole lot importance upon themselves and put themselves first, even on top of everyone in their social circles. For instance, they will utilize suspicion of others and a range of to affect their offline relationships with the people in their society (Christie and Geis, 1970, Rauthmann, 2011 and Jonason and Webster, 2012). The abovementioned strategies included projecting intimacy, hurting others’ feelings such as making they feel ashamed, embarrassed or guilty, manipulating and regulating someone’s personal information revealed (Austin et al., 2007, Blumstein, 1973, Brewer et al., in press and Jonason and Schmitt, 2010). It implies people who are with Machiavellianism, they would be more likely to promote themselves and their self-identity because they are willing to get satisfaction with the appreciation from others. On the other hand, the personality trait of Narcissism is with a strong and inflated self-concept and is characterized by an unrealistic positive self-view (Buffardi & Campbell, 2008). It implies that people with Narcissism would be more likely to propose leadership and authority to others, by building and shaping their entitlement and exhibition through self-promotion. For example, even on social media, a research of personality shows that narcissism is one of the most powerful predictors of self-promotional content in social media (Carpenter, 2012) such as Facebook, Instagram, twitter and snapchat. With that, the sense of selfishness of Narcissism would lead them to put themselves and their authority over others easily in their society through advocating self-promotion. Moreover, Psychopathy is, an extreme expression of normal personality traits, described as high narcissism and self-report psychopathy with low social desirability, like socializing and communicating
For the first part …show more content…
By advocating manipulation, self-interest and deception, Machiavellianism tend to place a whole lot importance upon themselves and put themselves first, even on top of everyone in their social circles. For instance, they will utilize suspicion of others and a range of to affect their offline relationships with the people in their society (Christie and Geis, 1970, Rauthmann, 2011 and Jonason and Webster, 2012). The abovementioned strategies included projecting intimacy, hurting others’ feelings such as making they feel ashamed, embarrassed or guilty, manipulating and regulating someone’s personal information revealed (Austin et al., 2007, Blumstein, 1973, Brewer et al., in press and Jonason and Schmitt, 2010). It implies people who are with Machiavellianism, they would be more likely to promote themselves and their self-identity because they are willing to get satisfaction with the appreciation from others. On the other hand, the personality trait of Narcissism is with a strong and inflated self-concept and is characterized by an unrealistic positive self-view (Buffardi & Campbell, 2008). It implies that people with Narcissism would be more likely to propose leadership and authority to others, by building and shaping their entitlement and exhibition through self-promotion. For example, even on social media, a research of personality shows that narcissism is one of the most powerful predictors of self-promotional content in social media (Carpenter, 2012) such as Facebook, Instagram, twitter and snapchat. With that, the sense of selfishness of Narcissism would lead them to put themselves and their authority over others easily in their society through advocating self-promotion. Moreover, Psychopathy is, an extreme expression of normal personality traits, described as high narcissism and self-report psychopathy with low social desirability, like socializing and communicating