PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Firelighting, Psychopathy, Grand Theft Auto
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Psyc 102 - introductory psychology - lecture 31: the dark triad of personality. Mild version, can manage in everyday society. Successful psychopath: milder or paired with a desirable attribute. You must manipulate important people for your own benefit. Advisor to the medici family in italy (ca. To succeed in politics, you must manipulate others. Excuse: most people are ignorant and deserve to be manipulated. You gotta be strategic (opposite of psychopaths) Found to be stealing money from millions of people. Spend his time cheating people on the stock market. Would not have been caught if it wasn"t for a strange recession. A: no, they can be found in the same person. Machiavellians manipulate to get what they want. Answer: show that sadism questionnaire predicts amount of bug crunching. 30% willing to crunch bugs in a grinder. 30% willing to work for opportunity to blast innocent partner with loud white noise.
