People with negative personality `` Dark Triad '' tend to take a strategy to appeal `` I am a pitiful and good victim ''

Three types of negative personalities, narcissism (narcissism), conspiracy numeracy (Machiavellianism), and psychopathy (psychopathy), are summarized as the `` dark triad ''. A study was announced that this dark triad is related to ' virtue signaling ' that appeals to one's goodness and ' victim signaling ' that shows victim behavior.

Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities.
https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000329

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'Virtue signaling' is the act of appealing to others that 'I am morally correct and good'. And the behavior of strongly appealing to the surroundings that 'I am a victim' is 'victim signaling'. In a study of a total of 3,536 people, Ekin Ok and colleagues at the University of British Columbia investigated how virtue and victim signaling are associated with Dark Triad traits and deceptive behavior. .

The research team said, ``Because humans are not perfect creatures and have luck, sometimes people are destined to suffer, suffer disadvantages, and be treated unfairly in life.When you encounter hardships and disadvantages, the burden Some people silently face the problem and try to solve it themselves, while others show their suffering to others, claim that they are the victims, and demand compensation. It's the latter people who are the ones who do.'

According to the research team, when people see a victim performing virtue signaling, they are more likely to try to help that person. For this reason, researchers argue that virtue signaling and victimhood are 'effective strategies for obtaining resources from others.' For example, they were more likely to help victims who were shot while volunteering at a charity event than victims who were shot in front of grocery stores or strip clubs. is.

And among the Dark Triads, Machiavellianism — the manipulative and deceptive nature — was found to be the strongest predictor of virtue and victim signaling. According to the research team, people with strong Machiavellian tendencies 'show how external factors prevent them from pursuing their goals and dreams,' 'appeal how they feel that their identity is not accepted in society,' and ' He often showed behavior such as 'expressing how underestimated he is,' and tended to appeal to how morally correct he was.

And the research team reported that this trend of virtue signaling and victim signaling was maintained even after considering demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. In other words, people with the Dark Triad are more likely to claim that they are pathetic and benevolent victims, no matter how high their social status is.

In addition, participants who tended to claim that they were good victims tended to exaggerate when they saw other people pretending to be victims. It seems that there was

The research team cautioned, ``People who exhibit virtue signaling and victim signaling are not necessarily those with dark triads such as Machiavellianism,'' but ``our conclusion is that victim signaling is a social influence. It's just that it's an effective tool to have, and it's most effective when deployed with virtue signaling.'