The Sinister Darkness Factor Trait, Why Pluto’s Definition Matters, and World Record Pumpkins
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about a personality trait called the D Factor that might be behind all the evil in the world; why the Pluto planet debate just won’t go away; and how much time it takes to grow giant, prize-worthy pumpkins.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- The D Factor Might Be the Personality Trait Behind All the Evil in the World
- Here's Why the Pluto Planet Debate Just Won't Die
- Here's How Time-Consuming It Is to Grow Giant, Prize-Worthy Pumpkins
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.2 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.2 | Today you learn about a personality trait that might be behind all the evil in the world, |
| 0:12.0 | why the Pluto Planet debate just won't go away, and how much time |
| 0:15.8 | it takes to grow giant, prize-worthy pumpkins. |
| 0:18.8 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:20.5 | A new study published this month and psychological review may have figured out the personality trait behind all the evil in the world. |
| 0:28.0 | Even better, you can take a test to see how much of it you've got just in time for Halloween. |
| 0:34.0 | Boah ha! |
| 0:35.0 | Is that good? |
| 0:38.0 | I don't think you would score very high on this. |
| 0:40.0 | Dang it. |
| 0:41.0 | Gotta practice that evil laugh. I really do. You know like Dr Horrible. |
| 0:45.0 | Take some rehearsing. Yeah. These evil personality traits go beyond what |
| 0:49.8 | psychologists call the Dark Triad. |
| 0:52.5 | We've talked about that before on curiosity.com. |
| 0:54.9 | The Dark Triad is made up of Machiavellianism, |
| 0:57.7 | narcissism, and psychopathy. |
| 1:00.0 | The research is behind this new study |
| 1:01.6 | set out to describe how the darkest personality traits were related. |
| 1:05.6 | So to do that, they expanded their search and found a full set of nine dark traits that could be linked together. |
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