The role of ''dark personalities" (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy), Big Five personality factors, and ideology in explaining prejudice

摘要: The so-called Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) represent correlated subclinical personality traits capturing ‘‘dark personalities”. How might darker personalities contribute to prejudice? In the present study (n = 197), these dark variables positively with outgroup threat perceptions and anti-immigrant prejudice. A proposed two-stage structural equation model, assuming indirect effects (Dark Personality, Big Five) on prejudice through ideology group perceptions, fit data well. Specifically, a latent Personality factor predicted social dominance orientation, whereas (low) Openness Experience right-wing authoritarianism; ideological each directly indirectly heightened intergroup threat. authors recommend that models of incorporate both normal-range predictors, in addition psychological mediators.