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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Light Triad vs Dark Triad

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

We’ve heard of the “Dark Triad” (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy) but what about the “Light Triad” (Kantianism, Humanism, and Faith in Humanity)? Dr. Kirk takes the test and sees how “Dark” and how “Light” he is.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.8

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

0:11.5

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

0:15.7

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

0:19.9

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

0:26.6

thing going to be an area of interest in the mental health community end of email.

0:31.4

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 character 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

Narcicism, meaning that you're self-centered and you have a grandiose sense of your own entitlement and your own specialness

0:59.0

that is not rational

1:01.0

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

1:09.0

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

1:15.2

respect for other human beings.

1:18.5

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

1:27.6

not for personal gain.

1:29.4

So this is like the opposite of Machiavellianism, right? Machiavellianism is like you're only nice to people

1:35.1

if you're gonna get something out of it.

1:37.6

But Kantianism is, you know, just being nice to people,

1:41.9

just to be nice because, you you just you just feel like that's the right thing to do.

1:46.2

Do you unto others that kind of thing? Humanism

1:49.2

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

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