{"id":237714,"date":"2026-05-26T02:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dark-personality-traits-linked-to-a-higher-tolerance-for-morally-questionable-behaviors"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:15:35","slug":"dark-personality-traits-linked-to-a-higher-tolerance-for-morally-questionable-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dark-personality-traits-linked-to-a-higher-tolerance-for-morally-questionable-behaviors","title":{"rendered":"Dark personality traits linked to a higher tolerance for morally questionable behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-personality-traits-linked-to-a-higher-tolerance-for-morally-questionable-behaviors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study contributes to the scientific knowledge about dark personality traits. However, the study was conducted on a relatively small group of students and solely based on self-reports. Studies on larger groups, involving other demographics, and those using more objective measures of endorsement of morally debatable behaviors might not yield identical results.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.63002\/assm.401.1298\">Relationships between the Dark Triad and Justification of Morally Debatable Behaviors in College Students,<\/a>\u201d was authored by Emma P. Paulson and Terry F. Pettijohn II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study contributes to the scientific knowledge about dark personality traits. However, the study was conducted on a relatively small group of students and solely based on self-reports. Studies on larger groups, involving other demographics, and those using more objective measures of endorsement of morally debatable behaviors might not yield identical results. The paper, \u201cRelationships [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237714","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}