Deviant Psychology is a podcast involving summaries and discussions of research publications on the dark triad/tetrad and thoughts about the topic based on personal experiences. https://deviantpsychology.com

Deviant Psychology is a podcast involving summaries and discussions of research publications on the dark triad/tetrad and thoughts about the topic based on personal experiences. https://deviantpsychology.com/

Deviant Psychology is a podcast involving summaries and discussions of research publications on the dark triad/tetrad and thoughts about the topic based on personal experiences. https://deviantpsychology.com/

Deviant Psychology is a podcast involving summaries and discussions of research publications on the dark triad/tetrad and thoughts about the topic based on personal experiences. https://deviantpsychology.com/

Pre-emptive chimp group wars on neighbouring groups, human hierarchical dominance, both are complex games. But both species have genetically survived for millenia because of its existence. Our ability to expand our Dunbar's number group size is linked to our growing brain size. Groups are complex. Psychopaths are like the most tough chimp, if the group doesn't create cohesion around us and let us know where to stop we will take over by default. We need a good community so we can direct our 'strength' towards being a sniper for the group rather than against it. I always want to be in front of the group barking and it took me years to control it but the impulsive need to rush to the front and get dirty is at core uncontrollable. Stop the feet and mouth from moving, but the whole body instinctively lurches forward to attack. Remove your snipers and their bullying skills, and watch your tribe/country appear just a little more... engulfable. By the expanding matter of life. Create group cohesion, put a good leader in and your psychopaths given enough power to be snipers. Give the guard dogs developed by evolutionary biology/psychology their meat so they don't create social unrest. The problem is when groups are forming and people push the psychopaths to take dominance because they look dominant. I want to fight things, always have, it's in my blood. Give me something you want me to fight... or what I fight will be you. You need guard dogs, the more things you have to protect. You need an army, an alarm system, a wall, a door... we need defence and so we have bred it into the species. We can protect or attack. It's the same skillset. Its just... without guide, the Disagreeableness reverts to the Self. And that's why we are so strong, because we will keep the Self alive forever but we also want to have a role. Like all humans do. We can forget about everything else, become totally Disagreeable and just focus on winning, protecting the Self. But what we are defeating, we may not care what we are attacking, is it your house? Who cares as long as I get to argue, snipe, fight, get dirty, get wet, lol. It depends on others. Many a bully, including myself, have bullied other people because they were making a pretty girl we liked skittish. You don't know if why your being bullied is because of the hierarchy, or the bully themselves. At many schools and workplaces the bullying is severe, and at others it's minor. Why? If psychopaths are spread evenly in the school populations. Is it maybe that some places feed psychopaths better so they are snipers rather than endevouring to swing from the trees with a machine gun.

What, if anything anymore, is making brave humans? Full video: https://youtu.be/IQJac7ul37E

Being both disagreeable and a human being. Being able to deal with much more than the average person but still not, "all things known to the universe". Not something Psychopaths want to say, or want to hear, but definitely instinctively know - that they have had bouts of feeling human. Times when they were in the midst of conflict where they wavered for a second when shooting in a war and never forgave themselves, when they couldn't win that race they so desperately wanted to and felt shame/guilt momentarily, when their partner left them, when they realised... they actually were a human. This may happen less to people high in the Dark Triad but its a part of human hormones - it comes to all humans, whether they want it to or not. Life happens, and if you can't talk about it, you feel your too fucking much of a fucking bro to discuss it - it will cause more extreme behaviours. Nobody asks how you are because you set off a long winded bullshit vicious response to leave you alone because you have no idea if your sad or not - they see you as stronger than them, look up to your resilience, they can't get through the disagreeableness or the charisma - and maybe... you don't actually know yourself. It's just something is there... something off. You can't explain it. But it may eat at you. I hear meditation is good for it. But its good to see the humanity in all people, regardless if they are attached to an enemy image or not. Full video: https://youtu.be/9xpPhIA__BA Referenced study: Exploring the Relationship between Psychopathy and Helping Behaviors in Naturalistic Settings: Preliminary Findings by Mehmet K Mahmut, Louise Cridland and Richard J Stevenson https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27649358/

What women are more likely to get you to do what they want? Full video: https://youtu.be/8_LA4hJ3kUg

Female high in the dark triad traits doing a dark triad test and explaining why she chose her answers.

Female high in the dark triad traits doing a dark triad test and explaining why she chose her answers.