{"id":205988,"date":"2025-02-09T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T02:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-found-the-driving-force-behind-your-darkest-impulses"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T02:01:38","slug":"scientists-found-the-driving-force-behind-your-darkest-impulses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-found-the-driving-force-behind-your-darkest-impulses","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Found The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-found-the-driving-force-behind-your-darkest-impulses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psychologists call it the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_triad\">dark triad<\/a>: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-found-the-driving-force-behind-your-darkest-impulses\/psychopath-capital-of-the-us-according-science-states-ranked-washington-dc\">psychopathy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-found-the-driving-force-behind-your-darkest-impulses\/we-might-have-been-wrong-about-what-s-going-on-inside-narcissists-agentic-implicit-esteem-mask\">narcissism<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machiavellianism\">Machiavellianism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth goes deeper, and darker. There\u2019s also egoism, sadism, spitefulness, and more. And behind this rogues gallery of all our worst inclinations on the surface, a central, common core of human darkness lies, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2018 study, psychologists from Germany and Denmark mapped this driving force behind all our darkest impulses and gave it a name. Meet D, the newly identified Dark Factor of Personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists call it the dark triad: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature \u2013 psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. But the truth goes deeper, and darker. There\u2019s also egoism, sadism, spitefulness, and more. And behind this rogues gallery of all our worst inclinations on the surface, a central, common core of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}