And the You're listening to Doctor, and Vanessa Lowe.

Is the night really more dangerous than the day?

Are there more wicked people out at night?

Common wisdom tells us that the darkness is malevolent

and that we're inviting peril if we venture out into it.

Respectable people go to bed at a respectable time and those that are out in the we hours

are rather up to no good or get what's coming to them.

But what about the night owl? The person who has that joyous burst of creative energy

when the sun is gone, the person who seeks out the world in its altered

shrouded incarnation because it's quiet or beautiful or different.

Research in 2013 found a connection between night owls and those with a sinister constellation of personality traits

ominously labeled the dark triad.

Peter Jonason is the lead author on that study.

The dar triad are three traits, thus the word triad,

composed of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.

Psychopathy's main feature, and Machiavellianism.

Psychopathy's main feature is antisocial activity.

Narcicism is characterized by extreme selfishness, grandiosity, and craving for admiration.

And Webster defines Machiavellianism as the view that any means, however unscrupulous,

can justifiably be used in achieving political power.

Its chief characteristics are manipulation, deceit, and exploitation of others.

Typically, anyone who has one of them has the other because they're not actually genuinely distinct.

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