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The Dark Side Is More Important Than the Light Side
For me it started uh in an undergraduate course where I learned about Machiavellianism and went to work with Richard Christie so in a sense I was there from the beginning how what the causal direction was. Other researchers in my department like to study happy people and I didn't find them as interesting as the as the dark side. There is a light triad now where people have put together some positive traits and kind of followed up in the notion of the dark tetra a dark triad, said why don't we look at the positive side and see who who is who gives desirable motivations for their behavior.