Aversive societal conditions explain differences in “dark” personality across countries and US states
Abstract
Humans differ in their levels of aversive (“dark”) personality traits such as egoism or psychopathy. Building upon theories suggesting that socioecological factors coshape the development of personality traits, it can be predicted that prior aversive societal conditions (ASC) (herein assessed via corruption, inequality, poverty, and violence) explain individuals’ levels of aversive personality (assessed via the Dark Factor of Personality, the common core underlying all aversive traits). Results considering individuals from 183 countries ( N = 1,791,542) and 50 US states ( N = 144,576) support the idea that ASC coshape individuals’ levels of aversive personality.
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Journal Info
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Authors (5)
Ingo Zettler
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen
Lau Lilleholt
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen
Martina Bader
Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen
Benjamin E. Hilbig
Department of Psychology, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Morten Moshagen
Department of Psychology and Education, Ulm University