The Dark Side of Personality Science and Practice in Social, Personality, and Clinical Psychology

by Zeigler-Hill, Virgil; Marcus, David K.

• ISBN13: 9781433821875
• ISBN10: 1433821877
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-03-14
• Publisher: American Psychological Association

Summary

This book provides a taxonomy of personality traits that are dark, or have maladaptive characteristics, and are connected to destructive behaviors and interpersonal problems. Adaptive features are also reviewed, as are clinical applications and future directions for research.

Dark personality traits are connected to a host of behavioral and interpersonal problems. To better understand and address these problems, this book unites personality psychology and clinical psychology to provide an interdisciplinary taxonomy of dark personality traits.

The Dark Side of Personality expands upon the "Dark Triad"—narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism—to encompass traits that have largely been ignored or not characterized as dark (e.g., spite, authoritarianism, and perfectionism). Drawing from recent research on the Big Five personality dimensions, each trait is presented as a complex spectrum of adaptive and maladaptive features with unique clinical implications.

Author Biography

Virgil Zeigler-Hill, PhD, is an associate professor and the director of graduate training for the Department of Psychology at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He has written more than 120 journal articles and book chapters that focus on these topics. Dr. Zeigler-Hill has edited two previous books: Self-Esteem and Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology. He is currently an associate editor for Self and Identity, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Evolutionary Psychology.
 
David K. Marcus, PhD, is a professor and the chair of the Department of Psychology at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of more than 75 journal articles. Much of his work focuses on psychopathy and antisocial behavior, but his research interests are diverse and include studies on spitefulness, hypochondriasis, psychotherapy outcomes and processes, and interpersonal perception. He is currently the editor of Group Dynamics and serves on the editorial boards of Psychological Assessment and the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
 

Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction: A Bright Future for Dark Personality Features? 
Virgil Zeigler-Hill and David K. Marcus

I. Antagonism

1. The Dark Side of Narcissism 
   Emily A. Dowgwillo, Sindes Dawood, and Aaron L. Pincus
2. Contemporary Conceptualizations of Callous Personality Features From Childhood to Adulthood 
   Dustin A. Pardini and James V. Ray
3. Fearless Dominance and Its Implications for Psychopathy: Are the Right Stuff and the Wrong Stuff Flip Sides of the Same Coin? 
   Scott O. Lilienfeld, Sarah Francis Smith, and Ashley L. Watts
4. The Nature of Machiavellianism: Distinct Patterns of Misbehavior 
   Daniel N. Jones
5. Everyday Sadism 
   Delroy L. Paulhus and Donald G. Dutton
6. Spite 
   David K. Marcus and Alyssa L. Norris

II. Disinhibition

1. A Review of Sensation Seeking and Its Empirical Correlates: Dark, Bright, and Neutral Hues 
   Jessica L. Maples-Keller, Danielle S. Berke, Lauren R. Few, and Joshua D. Miller
2. Urgency: A Common Transdiagnostic Endophenotype for Maladaptive Risk Taking 
   Melissa A. Cyders, Ayca Coskunpinar, and J. Davis VanderVeen
3. Distractibility: Interrupted by an Inability to Ignore 
   Tammy D. Barry, Karin Fisher, Kristy M. DiSabatino, and Theodore S. Tomeny

III. Rigidity

1. Deep, Dark, and Dysfunctional: The Destructiveness of Interpersonal Perfectionism 
   Gordon L. Flett, Paul L. Hewitt, and Simon S. Sherry
2. Authoritarianism: Positives and Negatives 
   Steven Ludeke
3. The Dark (and Light) Sides of Overconfidence 
   Joyce Ehrlinger and Alex Eichenbaum

IV. Negative Affectivity

1. Dark Side of the Mood or Sweet Emotion? Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Emotional Lability
   Kim L. Gratz, Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, and Diana Whalen
2. Anxiousness and Negative Affectivity in the Personality and Internalizing Disorders 
   Anthony J. Rosellini and Timothy A. Brown
3. Depressivity and Anhedonia 
   Ellen M. Kessel and Daniel N. Klein
4. The Dark Sides of High and Low Self-Esteem 
   Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Christopher J. Holden, Ashton C. Southard, Amy E. Noser, Brian Enjaian, and Noah C. Pollock
5. Interpersonal Dependency 
   Robert F. Bornstein

V. Current and Future Issues

1. Understanding the Dark Side of Personality: Reflections and Future Directions 
   David K. Marcus and Virgil Zeigler-Hill

Index

About the Editors