Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7248519 | Personality and Individual Differences | 2018 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
There is a paucity of literature investigating the extent to which human personality predicts lifetime (age-controlled) offspring. The present study contributes to this field in assessing whether the inter-related 'dark' personalities that have been linked to mating success (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy: the 'Dark Triad') predict number of children. Analyses from an online sample (Nâ¯=â¯314) revealed that for men, psychopathy was a negative predictor, and narcissism a positive predictor of lifetime offspring. For women, psychopathy emerged as a negative predictor of lifetime offspring. Results are discussed in respect of the importance of these traits to fitness-related outcomes, including reproduction, and the need to consider sex differences, as these traits may have a different function in men and women.
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Authors
Gregory L. Carter, Minna Lyons, Gayle Brewer,