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The Dark Tetrad and Moral Beliefs/Behaviors

The Dark Tetrad traits are linked to self-preservation and benefit seeking.
People with higher scores in the traits are often motivated to seek power and control and to display success to receive social approval and esteem. For example, they might view social and romantic relationships as instrumental means of achieving social status.
Dark traits correlate with self-direction thoughts (i.e., less open to change), as well as a right-wing political ideology, conservativeness, conspiracist ideation and a competitive view of the world, selective extremism behavior.
When facing moral dilemmas, the Dark Tetrad traits predict utilitarian decisions and sadism predicts minimizing causal responsibility for harm.
Machiavellianism and sadism are associated with difficulties in teamwork.
Psychopathy and sadism are associated with low task performance, and the Dark Tetrad, except narcissism, are associated with high counter-productive work.
The Dark Tetrad traits are also associated with higher levels of advantageous and disadvantageous risk taking, malevolent creativity, lying and sinning, especially pride, greed, and lust, giving less importance to fairness attitudes and purity values, while tending to not to rely on supernatural beliefs.

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