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Dark Core Personality Test (I.E. How fucked up are you?)

Master Of Illusion

Master Of Illusion

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The Dark Core of Personality

What's your dark core score?
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Across four studies, the researchers found support for the existence of their proposed D-factor. To capture a reasonable D-factor, they administered nine different tests measuring a particular dark trait that has been well studied in the psychological literature. These are the nine traits that comprised their D-factor:

  1. Egoism. The excessive concern with one's own pleasure or advantage at the expense of community well-being.
  2. Machiavellianism. Manipulativeness, callous affect and strategic-calculating orientation.
  3. Moral Disengagement. A generalized cognitive orientation to the world that differentiates individuals' thinking in a way that powerfully affects unethical behavior.
  4. Narcissism. An all-consuming motive for ego reinforcement.
  5. Psychological Entitlement. A stable and pervasive sense that one deserves more and is entitled to more than others.
  6. Psychopathy. Deficits in affect, callousness, self-control and impulsivity.
  7. Sadism. Intentionally inflicting physical, sexual or psychological pain or suffering on others in order to assert power and dominance or for pleasure and enjoyment.
  8. Self-Interest. The pursuit of gains in socially valued domains, including material goods, social status, recognition, academic or occupational achievement and happiness.
  9. Spitefulness. A preference that would harm another but that would also entail harm to oneself. This harm could be social, financial, physical or an inconvenience.
Here is a summary of their main findings:

  • First, they found that all of the dark traits were substantially positively related to each other (what Spearman referred to as a "positive manifold")—although some traits were more strongly correlated with each other than others. The strongest correlations were found among measures of Egoism, Machiavellianism, Moral Disengagement, Psychopathy, Sadism and Spitefulness.
  • Second, the pattern of items that were most strongly related to the D-factor related to aspects of their theoretical model: utility maximization ("I'll say anything to get what I want"), inflicting disutility on others ("There have been times when I was willing to suffer some small harm so that I could punish someone else who deserved it"), and justifying malevolent beliefs ("I honestly feel I'm just more deserving than others").
  • Third, they found that those scoring high on the D-factor were more likely to keep money for themselves when given the opportunity, and were more likely to display unethical behavior (cheating to maximize one's gain).
  • Fourth, the D-factor was related to a number of outcomes you would expect, including positive associations with self-centeredness, dominance, impulsivity, insensitivity, power, aggression and negative associations with nurturance, internalized moral identity, perspective taking, sincerity, fairness, greed avoidance and modesty.
  • Fifth, they found support for Spearman's principle of the indifference of the indicator. The D-factor captured the dark core of many different dark traits without crucially relying on any one measure. In fact, they found that even after omitting 50 percent of the items at random, and repeating this process 1,000 times, still resulted in extremely high correlations among all of the D-factors (> r=.93).
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The test: https://www.idrlabs.com/dark-core-personality/test.php

My results:
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How fucked up are you GAF?
 
ZeroZeroQuatre

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I'm surprised by the "egoism", but then checking on their definition, it makes more sense.
Egoism. The excessive concern with one's own pleasure or advantage at the expense of community well-being.
So yeah, whatever - you made your bed, now you lie in it, sorry, World.
 
Punished Miku

Punished Miku

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This makes you 27.89% Lighter than the average person.

But yeah, I can see the big difference in some of the questions when I think of myself at work compared to people who cozy up with management just to get ahead, and generally are mean and self-interested people more than they are fair or honest. I'm more fair, even at the expense of my own direct self-interest.
 
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O-N-E

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Pretty surprised with the results. Feel like the "one in the green" option weighed more heavily than I thought it would. How many people can honestly say they're not trying to get ahead in life?

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Punished Miku

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O-N-E said:
Pretty surprised with the results. Feel like the "one in the green" option weighed more heavily than I thought it would. How many people can honestly say they're not trying to get ahead in life?

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Technocrats, genuine believers in meritocracy who have naive faith that fair rules will elevate the most deserving. It just depends on how you look at it. Most people sync up with your view of it though, so it seems pretty normal. Most of your scores are similar to the average answer.
 
lock2k

lock2k

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I got 18.11% darker than avg.

I swear I'm a good person. I think it's my lack of faith in humanity that makes me feel like I do.
 
rykomatsu

rykomatsu

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Apparently I am a greedy self-centered psychopathic and vengeful sadist that prioritizes community well-being.

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ie...I take one for the team all the time...?

Does that make me evil?

I find it interesting that my narcissism and egoist scores are (relatively) low
 
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R

Rock And Roll

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I'm on mobile and I can't figure out how to link it so I had to screenshot instead.

Turns out I'm a huge asshole who is terrible with technology. This should come as a surprise to no one.

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L

LisaMariaMartin

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Sounds about right. I don't really care if anything (good or bad) happens to people who I have no connection to. As long as I can lead a comfortable life, I don't care about anything or anyone else.
 
Great Hair

Great Hair

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eot said:
Most of the questions sound pretty psycho
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Yep, they are so obvious. A yes or a no would suffice, but then they could not have this sexy graph. to show ppl. How am i suppose to know, how much i hate, dislike or favor something by using numbers, a scale from -3 to +3.

How much of an asshole are you?
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3
Was Mother Theresa a modern saint?
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3
"Is it ok to hurt people, who dont have feelings and to steal their PS5?"
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3
Should Tom&Jerry come back?
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3

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Stilton Disco

Stilton Disco

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King Harkinian said:
Yep, they are so obvious. A yes or a no would suffice, but then they could not have this sexy graph. to show ppl. How am i suppose to know, how much i hate, dislike or favor something by using numbers, a scale from -3 to +3.

How much of an asshole are you?
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3
Was Mother Theresa a modern saint?
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3
"Is it ok to hurt people, who dont have feelings and to steal their PS5?"
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3
Should Tom&Jerry come back?
-3-2-1 0 +1+2+3

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The degrees of agreement pretty much equate to 'some times', 'most of the time' and 'all of the time' from when I looked into such things previously.
 
Airola

Airola

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King Harkinian said:
Yep, they are so obvious. A yes or a no would suffice, but then they could not have this sexy graph. to show ppl. How am i suppose to know, how much i hate, dislike or favor something by using numbers, a scale from -3 to +3.
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So if the question is "do you have fantasies of hurting other people" and you would not fantasize about hurting regular people but would get irregular fantasies of hurting a criminal when you read about someone raping a kid or something, do you think a "yes/no" answer would be good enough?
 
Bolivar687

Bolivar687

Banned
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I feel like the world must be a pretty fucked up place if I'm 15.89% lighter than the average person. Although if you're going to beat them on some areas, I think Machiavellian Sadism is a pretty good place to be!

Some of these questions though. "It's okay to torture small animals, so long as it traumatizes someone who wronged me." :messenger_hushed:
 
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