Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s faces
IntroductionThe literature suggests that people can accurately infer dark triad (DT) personality traits from other peoples’ faces. Using a self-report scale, this study investigated the impact of participants’ DT personality traits on their ability to accurately infer other peoples’ DT traits from f...
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| description | IntroductionThe literature suggests that people can accurately infer dark triad (DT) personality traits from other peoples’ faces. Using a self-report scale, this study investigated the impact of participants’ DT personality traits on their ability to accurately infer other peoples’ DT traits from facial cues.MethodsWe created composite facial photographs of Japanese people with varying Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism scores. The Japanese participants (N = 170) assessed these three DT traits in the facial photographs and completed a questionnaire that assessed their own DT traits.ResultsThe results indicated that the participants could accurately infer all three DT traits from female faces but not from male faces. Male participants showed a positive correlation between accurate inferences of other men’s Machiavellianism and their own DT traits. In contrast, female participants showed a negative correlation between correct inferences of men’s DT traits and their own DT traits.DiscussionThese findings offer novel insights into human evolutionary and social adaptations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab08b78897fc4503bb6ccf01c2357d1f2024-04-18T04:44:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782024-04-011510.3389/fpsyg.2024.13633991363399Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s facesKeita MasuiRyusei YoshizumiHina NakajimaIntroductionThe literature suggests that people can accurately infer dark triad (DT) personality traits from other peoples’ faces. Using a self-report scale, this study investigated the impact of participants’ DT personality traits on their ability to accurately infer other peoples’ DT traits from facial cues.MethodsWe created composite facial photographs of Japanese people with varying Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism scores. The Japanese participants (N = 170) assessed these three DT traits in the facial photographs and completed a questionnaire that assessed their own DT traits.ResultsThe results indicated that the participants could accurately infer all three DT traits from female faces but not from male faces. Male participants showed a positive correlation between accurate inferences of other men’s Machiavellianism and their own DT traits. In contrast, female participants showed a negative correlation between correct inferences of men’s DT traits and their own DT traits.DiscussionThese findings offer novel insights into human evolutionary and social adaptations.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1363399/fulldark triadface perceptionMachiavellianismpsychopathynarcissism |
| spellingShingle | Keita Masui Ryusei Yoshizumi Hina Nakajima Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s faces Frontiers in Psychology dark triad face perception Machiavellianism psychopathy narcissism |
| title | Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s faces |
| title_full | Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s faces |
| title_fullStr | Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s faces |
| title_full_unstemmed | Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s faces |
| title_short | Men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people’s faces |
| title_sort | men with high dark triad personality traits can accurately infer dark triad traits from other people s faces |
| topic | dark triad face perception Machiavellianism psychopathy narcissism |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1363399/full |
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