This book provides a taxonomy of personality traits that are dark, or have maladaptive characteristics, and are connected to destructive behaviors and interpersonal problems. Adaptive features are also reviewed, as are clinical applications and future directions for research.
Dark personality traits are connected to a host of behavioral and interpersonal problems. To better understand and address these problems, this book unites personality psychology and clinical psychology to provide an interdisciplinary taxonomy of dark personality traits.
The Dark Side of Personality expands upon the "Dark Triad"-narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism-to encompass traits that have largely been ignored or not characterized as dark (e.g., spite, authoritarianism, and perfectionism). Drawing from recent research on the Big Five personality dimensions, each trait is presented as a complex spectrum of adaptive and maladaptive features with unique clinical implications.
Contributors
Introduction: A Bright Future for Dark Personality Features?
Virgil Zeigler-Hill and David K. Marcus
I. Antagonism
The Dark Side of Narcissism
Emily A. Dowgwillo, Sindes Dawood, and Aaron L. Pincus
Contemporary Conceptualizations of Callous Personality Features From Childhood to Adulthood
Dustin A. Pardini and James V. Ray
Fearless Dominance and Its Implications for Psychopathy: Are the Right Stuff and the Wrong Stuff Flip Sides of the Same Coin?
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Sarah Francis Smith, and Ashley L. Watts
The Nature of Machiavellianism: Distinct Patterns of Misbehavior
Daniel N. Jones
Everyday Sadism
Delroy L. Paulhus and Donald G. Dutton
Spite
David K. Marcus and Alyssa L. Norris
II. Disinhibition
A Review of Sensation Seeking and Its Empirical Correlates: Dark, Bright, and Neutral Hues
Jessica L. Maples-Keller, Danielle S. Berke, Lauren R. Few, and Joshua D. Miller
Urgency: A Common Transdiagnostic Endophenotype for Maladaptive Risk Taking
Melissa A. Cyders, Ayca Coskunpinar, and J. Davis VanderVeen
Distractibility: Interrupted by an Inability to Ignore
Tammy D. Barry, Karin Fisher, Kristy M. DiSabatino, and Theodore S. Tomeny
III. Rigidity
Deep, Dark, and Dysfunctional: The Destructiveness of Interpersonal Perfectionism
Gordon L. Flett, Paul L. Hewitt, and Simon S. Sherry
Authoritarianism: Positives and Negatives
Steven Ludeke
The Dark (and Light) Sides of Overconfidence
Joyce Ehrlinger and Alex Eichenbaum
IV. Negative Affectivity
Dark Side of the Mood or Sweet Emotion? Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Emotional Lability
Kim L. Gratz, Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, and Diana Whalen
Anxiousness and Negative Affectivity in the Personality and Internalizing Disorders
Anthony J. Rosellini and Timothy A. Brown
Depressivity and Anhedonia
Ellen M. Kessel and Daniel N. Klein
The Dark Sides of High and Low Self-Esteem
Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Christopher J. Holden, Ashton C. Southard, Amy E. Noser, Brian Enjaian, and Noah C. Pollock
Interpersonal Dependency
Robert F. Bornstein
V. Current and Future Issues
Understanding the Dark Side of Personality: Reflections and Future Directions
David K. Marcus and Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Index
About the Editors
