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The Dark Triad and Psychopaths
The dark triad is morphed into the dark tetra to some degree. We want to parse the dark side of traits but you can't really do much with the literature because of this phenomenon that we called construct creep. Machiavellians are willing to use manipulation to obtain their personal ends and narcissists seem to be driven by a high desire to obtain unearned status from others. And then the psychopaths I spent a lot of time looking at hares research and thinking about relationship to the big five psychopaths seem to be something approximating parasitical parasitical predators. The most important thing for them is not status in relationship to competence let's say or in relationship to performance but