“A Lot More Bad News for Conservatives, and a Little Bit of Bad News for Liberals? Moral Judgments and the Dark Triad Personality Traits: A Follow-up Study-

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• 作者：Marcus Arvan (1)
  
• 关键词：Personality ; Morality ; Psychopathy ; Narcissism ; Machiavellianism
• 刊名：Neuroethics
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：April 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 页码：51-64
• 全文大小：1061KB
• 参考文献：1. Arvan, Marcus (in press). “Bad News for Conservatives? Moral Judgments and the Dark Triad Personality Traits,- / Neuroethics (available Online First at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k86q25k2278188gw/).
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• 作者单位：Marcus Arvan (1)
  
  1. Department of Philosophy & Religion, University of Tampa, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Box R, Tampa, FL, 33606, USA
  
• ISSN：1874-5504

文摘

In a recent study appearing in Neuroethics, I reported observing 11 significant correlations between the “Dark Triad-personality traits -Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy -and “conservative-judgments on a 17-item Moral Intuition Survey. Surprisingly, I observed no significant correlations between the Dark Triad and “liberal-judgments. In order to determine whether these results were an artifact of the particular issues I selected, I ran a follow-up study testing the Dark Triad against conservative and liberal judgments on 15 additional moral issues. The new issues examined include illegal immigration, abortion, the teaching of “intelligent design-in public schools, the use of waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques-in the war on terrorism, laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and environmentalism. 1154 participants (680 male, 472 female; median age 29), recruited online through Amazon Mechanical Turk, completed three surveys: a 15-item Moral Intuition Survey (MIS), the 28-item Short Dark Triad personality inventory, and a five-item demographic survey. The results strongly reinforce my earlier findings. Twenty-two significant correlations were observed between “conservative-judgments and the Dark Triad (all of which were significant past a Bonferonni-corrected significance threshold of p--0008), compared to seven significant correlations between Dark Triad and “liberal-judgments (only one of which was significant past p--0008). This article concludes by developing a novel research proposal for determining whether the results of my two studies are “bad news-for conservatives or liberals.