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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Light Triad vs Dark Triad (2020 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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January 1, 2020
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0:00.0

Hey deserving listeners, it's just me today. I thought I would answer some patron emails.

0:05.2

This first emails from anonymous patron saying, have you heard about the light triad personality traits

0:11.6

in contrast to the dark triad. So apparently there's something

0:15.8

called a light triad as opposed to the dark triad. What do you think about it? Can

0:20.0

someone for instance exhibit these traits, blah blah blah is there sort of is this

0:26.3

sort of thing going to be an area of interest in the mental health community

0:30.1

end of email. So no I had never heard of the light triad I'd heard of the dark

0:34.8

triad so the dark triad is often associated with it's a it's a constellation of character traits that are associated with bad things.

0:47.0

Narcicism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

0:52.0

Narcissism, meaning that you're self-centered

0:55.0

and you have a grandiose sense of your own entitlement

0:58.1

and your own specialness that is not rational.

1:01.8

Machiavellianism, meaning that you scheme to screw people over for your own gain,

1:09.1

and psychopathy in a nutshell, meaning that you don't have a lot of empathy or care for other human beings

1:15.1

or respect for other human beings.

1:18.6

And apparently there's something called the Light Triad which is contianism which is essentially being nice to people just to be nice

1:27.4

not for personal gain so this is like the opposite of Machiavellianism, right?

1:33.0

Machiavellianism is like you're only nice to people if you're going to get something out of it.

1:37.8

But Kantianism is, you know, just being nice to people, just be nice because you just you just feel like

1:44.9

that's the right thing to do do unto others that kind of thing humanism valuing the

1:50.1

dignity and the worth of each individual and faith in humanity, believing in the fundamental

1:56.4

goodness of humans.

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