Does Donald Trump exhibit the dark triad of personality disorders?
What is the Dark Triad?This popular term was coined in 2002 by Paulhus and Williams. Dark Triad refers to three unusually negative personality traits – narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. The latter two share more traits with each other than with narcissists. Generally, the term refers to individuals with “subclinical” symptoms, meaning that they may not necessarily fully have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) or anti-social personality disorder (ASPD). Machiavellianism arose out of Machiavelli’s philosophy and is not a mental health disorder.
Narcissism is characterized by the pursuit of ego gratification, vanity, a sense of superiority, grandiosity, dominance, and entitlement.
Machiavellianism is marked by manipulation – a calculating, duplicitous, and amoral personality, focused on self-interest and personal gain.
Psychopathy is distinguished by callousness, impulsivity, and enduring antisocial and bold behaviour.
So we can see a direct correlation between all three traits and D. Trump, indeed, many psychologists have stated their belief that should Trump take a Triad test his score would be amongst the highest taken.
I'm sure we can see many with similar traits, but can they see them themselves?
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So I just wondered who else had similar traits.
Biden is an old fool, but sadly will be president until the next election.
360 million choices and they choose Trump/Biden, says a lot about the American electorate
One needn't have been a rabid Libertarian to've at least Considered the Only candidate on the ballot in All 50 Stares against whom were No Séxual Assault Allegations ....
I drank Kool Aid
Social profiling
Anybody of good conscience would not see themselves as having the right to judge things they know nothing about. But this is precisely what the surveillance state does. All that spying power will make for more callous and superficial judges judging from a position of complete ignorance.
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