Is it possible to consider attractive manipulative, narcissistic or selfish people? Scientists conducted a study, the purpose of which was to find out whether these contradictory features have some real attractiveness when choosing a partner-or whether their imaginary charm is only a myth.

As the results showed, it all depends on what kind of relationship the woman plans. That is, as Psy Poste writes, women who are attracted to men with the features of "

Until now, studies that have studied how these negative features affect the choice of a partner and sexual behavior, there were few enough. Therefore, the authors of the latest study, Javor of Dragostins and Tom But, tried to change this. They developed a set of vignettes, each of which consisted of a photograph of a person taken from Chicago Face Dataset, combined with a description of behavior corresponding to a low, middle or high level of personal features of the " In psychology, this term is used to describe a person covering three features: narcissism, Machiavellism and psychopathy.

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Scientists conducted a pilot study with the participation of 29 graduate psychologists from the University of Edinburgh to check whether the behavior described in the vignettes can be recognized as representing the alleged levels of three features of the dark triad. The authors left only those vignettes for which more than 80% of the pilot research participants correctly determined the presented personality traits and used them in further research.