How the Dark Triad traits of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism predict cyberbullying (spoiler: one of them doesn’t)
According to the first of today's Five Studies About: The Dark Triad
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Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Five Studies About is a free tip sheet where I curate recent crime and justice studies related to one topic. Today’s topic is the dark triad.
These new crime studies related to the dark triad were recently published by journals I monitor:
1. Dark Triad Traits and Cyberbullying Perpetration: Addressing Current Limitations in Dark Triad Studies [Deviant Behavior] (Note: While in this study specific elements of psychopathy and types of narcissism predict cyberbullying, Machiavellianism did not.)
2. Do Emotion Regulation and Empathic Concern Moderate the Association Between Dark Triad Traits and Intimate Partner Violence? [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
3. White “Victim” Ideology and Online Aggression: A Look at Gender, Extremism, and the Dark Triad [Crime & Delinquency]
4. Malevolent Monitoring: Dark Triad Traits, Cyber Dating Abuse, and the Instrumental Role of Self-Control [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
5. From Dark Triad Personality Traits to Digital Harm: Mediating Cyberbullying Through Online Moral Disengagement [Deviant Behavior]
I might cover some of these studies further in The Practice of Understanding Crime, my newsletter where I report on criminology and criminal justice research. If any sound interesting or important, let me know in the comments:
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