What is 'dark core' that lurks in the mind and is the source of malicious ideas and actions?

By yori kato

People with a wide variety of ideas live together in this world, but among them are obviously ethical doubtful behaviors, morally problematic behaviors, or socially accepted It is also true that there are people who take no action. A research team by a personality psychologist named these characteristics that exist in people as Dark Traits (dark features), and that Dark Core ( Dark Core ) exists in personality. This Dark Traits is drawing attention not only in the field of psychology but also in the field of criminal studies and behavioral economics.

The Dark Core of Personality
(PDF) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326364629_The_Dark_Core_of_Personality

The Dark Core of Personality - Scientific American Blog Network
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dark-core-of-personality/

This research is conducted by Dr. Morten Moshagen of Ulm University in Germany and a research team of Professor Ingo Zettler of Copenhagen University of Denmark. In the research team, this Dark Traits has multiple elements, clarified that they are mutually related, and advocates that there is a concept called "D-factor ( D factor )" I will.

D factor is defined as "a basic tendency accompanied by a belief that is justification for malicious behavior and to maximize the" one's own utility "at the expense of others. "Utility" in this case means "achievement of the goal", and a person who shows a high point in the inspection of the factor D causes a negative result even against the interests of others or to others Even though it is considered to aim to maximize "achievement of the goal".

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There may be people who come to the word "factor D", but this concept is related to the relation between "g factor" and "s factor" proposed by psychologist Charles Spearman from the 19th century to the 20th century It is said to be what to do. Spearman has proposed the idea that these two factors determine the cognitive ability (intelligence) of people, but "D factor" is proposed as determining the "malignant intention of people" which can be said the opposite.

It is thought that D factor has the following nine features.

1. Egisim : Excessive concern for his own pleasure and advantage at the expense of the happiness of the community.
2. Machiavellism : Arbitrary maneuver, sneaky influence, and behavior based on strategic calculation.
3. Moral departure : Generalized cognitive orientation to the world, differentiating individual thoughts in ways that strongly influence behavior that goes against ethics.
Four. Narcissism : motivation to put everything in for ego reinforcement.
Five. Grant psychological qualification : a stable universal sense that one person is fitted for it, and qualified as many people as others.
6. Psychopathy : With lack of emotion, insensitivity, self-control, impulsivity.
7. Sadism : praise power and power, deliberately give physical, sexual, psychological pain and suffering to others for pleasure and pleasure.
8. Self-interest : pursuit of profit in socially valuable areas including material property, social position, cognition, academic or professional achievement, happiness.
9. Malice : It will harm another person, but it also harms itself. This harm will cause various troubles such as social, financial and physical.

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And the research team of Mr. Moshagen et al. Has found the following five points.

◆ 1: All 9 D factors are positively related to each other. Among them, it turned out that the characteristics of egoism, maccerism, moral withdrawal, psychopathy, sadism, and malice were particularly strongly correlated.

◆ 2: The pattern of the item most strongly related to D factor is related to the logical model held by the person

Example: For the maximization of utility ("I will tell you anything for what I want to get"), hindering the utility of other people ("By suffering a little damage, To punish people "), justify a malicious way of thinking (" To be honest, I think that I am better than anyone else. "

◆ 3: The higher the score of D factor, the more likely it is that you will save money for yourself if you have the opportunity. Also, there is a high possibility of taking unethical behavior, such as fraudulent acts to maximize your interests.

◆ 4: D factors are "self-centered", "superiority", "impulsivity", "insensitivity" "power" "aggression" "negative association to child rearing" "internalized moral identity" "society Obtaining a point of view "and at the same time it appears in a positive form such as" sincerity "" fairness "" avoidance of greediness "" humility ".

◆ 5: The research team confirmed that Spearman's principle applies. Factor D captured the core of many different Dark Traits without being critically dependent on either indicator. In fact, the research team confirmed that repeating this process 1000 times, even after eliminating 50% of the items randomly, still had a very high correlation between all D factors.

◆ How to measure your dark degree "Dark Core Score" <br> It is related to the nine features mentioned above, but as the number of answers that said "Yes" to the next nine questions is larger, your "dark core Score "is high.

1. It is difficult to advance things without pulling out hands in various situations.
2. I like to take things wisely, passing through my own way.
3. People who receive unfair treatment are those who make their cause by themselves.
Four. As everyone says so, I think that I am special.
Five. To be honest, I deserve praise more than others.
6. If it's for the things you want to get it's what you say
7. It is exciting to hurt people
8. I try to surely let others know about my success
9. Sometimes it is meaningful that you suffer a little bit of damage in order to see that other people receive appropriate punishment