Evolutionary Perspectives
Most work on the Dark Triad points to correlations with aggression, racism, and bullying. for evidence of the aversive nature of these traits.
In general, most researchers treat these traits as pathological, something that needs to be treated, and inherently undesirable, e.g. socially sanctioned or personally counter-productive. However, some argue that this view of the traits is the result of researchers having an implicit group selection orientation towards personality traits.
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