Machiavellianismis also called the manipulative personality; Machiavellian individuals behave in a cold and manipulative fashion and are insincere and callous (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). The term Machiavellianism comes from Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat who wrote a book entitled “The Prince....
It was later validated in non-criminal samples (Forth, Brown, Hart, & Hare, 1996). Recent research by Williams and Paulhus (2002) confirmed that the SRP has the same four-factor solution as the Psychopathy Check List (Hare, 1991), which is the gold standard in the measurement of ...
The Dark Tetrad (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism) is a taxonomy of personality dispositions toward immoral, antisocial, and antagonistic behavior; still, its predictive power in the domain of criminal behavior is rarely tested. In the present research, we analyzed the associations...
Journal of Personality AssessmentCollison, K. L., Miller, J. D., Gaughan, E. T., Widiger, T. A., & Lynam, D. R. (2016). Development and validation of the super-short form of the elemental psychopathy assessment. Journal of Criminal Justice, 47, 143-150. https://doi.org/10. ...
Since psychopathic behavior is characteristic of APD, there are large overlaps in similarities in neural function between APD and more severe psychopathy. However, a majority of people with diagnosed severe APDare not criminal or severe psychopaths, although psychopaths are characterized partly by their...