PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Dark Triad, Machiavellianism, Narcissism
20 Aug 2013
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They are driven by internal states of aggression, sexual hunger and food. Driven blindly by these needs: these drives have to be controlled by society. Driven out of austria by the nazis: went to england where he died several months later from cancer. Moved to vienna when he was young. Wanted to go to law school, so he attended university of vienna: but realized he was interested in medicine. Particularly interested in brain and neural issues. Went to paris to study with charcot: charcot was looking into hypnosis. 1896, freud started looking at the basic, kind of underlying drives of people. Viewed as one of the 4 important figures in the 20th century: einstein, freud, darwin, karl marx. It taps 3 constructs that are on the darker side of humanity. A measure of the dark triad: psychopathy, machiavellianism, narcissism. Tapping broader tendencies that are in the ordinary population.
