RE: Inside the Manipulator’s Mind: The Dark Triad of Personality
Hello Abby!
Sadly, it is true that recently the amount of work is overwhelming and I cannot find time to even stay active with reading and commenting here.
I am so glad that you have chosen the same topic and I would very much like to read it. However, my friendly advice is to turn your attention to more recent studies as they show really interesting results and are quite up to date. For this article I did a brief overview. It would be much nicer to see your point of view.
I am currently working on narcissism and I am participating into a cross-cultural study in which we aim to validate a new instrument to measure narcissism. There is a lot to write about this topic and I really hope that I would find the time to do that soon enough.
I personally believe that personality is strongly influenced by social and behavioral factors. If they remain the samw then probably we could say that personality could be fixed.. Would you disagree?
Last but not least I would like to use this reply to express my gratitude towards your constant support. It means a lot and it's not left unnoticed.
Best regards to you!
I am definitely more comfortable giving my opinion about the traits within the continuum of the big 5, which I believe it changes with age, in spite of minimal social changes. So, I would like to think it is the same with the dark triad too. But, like you said, there is a lot to be discussed about this. Things are not so straight-forward! I am looking forward to your forthcoming posts about narcissism, and will keep your advice in mind.
Thank you for your kind words. You take good care of yourself :)
Personality traits do change with age. But I believe that the overall personality, attitude, views etc. in their core remain the same and there's always a part within us which will forever remain fixed. What other traits would accompany it in the current personality organization is a really interesting question :)