The Dark Side of Personality: Science and Practice in Social, Personality, and Clinical Psychology

384 Pages·2016·3.46 MB·English

THE DARK SIDE
OF PERSONALITY

THE DARK SIDE
OF PERSONALITY

Science and Practice
in Social, Personality,
and Clinical Psychology
Edited by
Virgil Zeigler-Hill and David K. Marcus
American Psychological Association • Washington, DC
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The dark side of personality : science and practice in social, personality, and clinical
psychology / Virgil Zeigler-Hill and David K. Marcus, [editors].
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4338-2187-5 — ISBN 1-4338-2187-7 1. Personality. 2. Personality
disorders. I. Zeigler-Hill, Virgil, editor. II. Marcus, David K., editor. III. Title.
BF698.3.D37 2016
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CONTENTS
Contributors ................................................................................................ ix
Introduction: A Bright Future for Dark Personality Features? .................... 3
Virgil Zeigler-Hill and David K. Marcus
I. Antagonism ........................................................................................... 23
Chapter 1. The Dark Side of Narcissism .......................................... 25
Emily A. Dowgwillo, Sindes Dawood,
and Aaron L. Pincus
Chapter 2. Contemporary Conceptualizations of Callous
Personality Features From Childhood to Adulthood........ 45
Dustin A. Pardini and James V. Ray
Chapter 3. Fearless Dominance and Its Implications
for Psychopathy: Are the Right Stuff and
the Wrong Stuff Flip Sides of the Same Coin? .............. 65
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Sarah Francis Smith,
and Ashley L. Watts
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Chapter 4. T he Nature of Machiavellianism:
Distinct Patterns of Misbehavior ................................... 87
Daniel N. Jones
Chapter 5. Everyday Sadism ........................................................... 109
Delroy L. Paulhus and Donald G. Dutton
Chapter 6. Spite ............................................................................. 121
David K. Marcus and Alyssa L. Norris
II. Disinhibition ..................................................................................... 135
Chapter 7. A Review of Sensation Seeking and Its Empirical
Correlates: Dark, Bright, and Neutral Hues ................. 137
Jessica L. Maples-Keller, Danielle S. Berke,
Lauren R. Few, and Joshua D. Miller
Chapter 8. Urgency: A Common Transdiagnostic
Endophenotype for Maladaptive Risk Taking .............. 157
Melissa A. Cyders, Ayca Coskunpinar,
and J. Davis VanderVeen
Chapter 9. Distractibility: Interrupted by an Inability to Ignore ...... 189
Tammy D. Barry, Karin Fisher, Kristy M. DiSabatino,
and Theodore S. Tomeny
III. Rigidity ............................................................................................ 209
Chapter 10. D eep, Dark, and Dysfunctional: The Destructiveness
of Interpersonal Perfectionism ..................................... 211
Gordon L. Flett, Paul L. Hewitt, and Simon S. Sherry
Chapter 11. Authoritarianism: Positives and Negatives .................. 231
Steven Ludeke
Chapter 12: The Dark (and Light) Sides of Overconfidence .......... 251
Joyce Ehrlinger and Alex Eichenbaum
IV. Negative Affectivity ........................................................................ 267
Chapter 13. Dark Side of the Mood or Sweet Emotion?
Toward a More Nuanced Understanding
of Emotional Lability ................................................... 269
K im L. Gratz, Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon,
and Diana Whalen
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Chapter 14. Anxiousness and Negative Affectivity in
the Personality and Internalizing Disorders ................. 287
Anthony J. Rosellini and Timothy A. Brown
Chapter 15. Depressivity and Anhedonia ........................................ 307
Ellen M. Kessel and Daniel N. Klein
Chapter 16. The Dark Sides of High and Low Self-Esteem ............. 325
Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Christopher J. Holden,
Ashton C. Southard, Amy E. Noser,
Brian Enjaian, and Noah C. Pollock
Chapter 17. Interpersonal Dependency ........................................... 341
Robert F. Bornstein
V. Current and Future Issues ............................................................... 361
Chapter 18. Understanding the Dark Side of Personality:
Reflections and Future Directions ................................ 363
David K. Marcus and Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Index ........................................................................................................ 375
About the Editors..................................................................................... 389
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CONTRIBUTORS
Tammy D. Barry, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Southern
Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Danielle S. Berke, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia,
Athens
Robert F. Bornstein, PhD, Department of Psychology, Adelphi University,
Garden City, NY
Timothy A. Brown, PhD, Department of Psychology, Boston University,
Boston, MA
Ayca Coskunpinar, MS, Department of Psychology, Indiana University–
Purdue University Indianapolis
Melissa A. Cyders, PhD, Department of Psychology, Indiana University–
Purdue University Indianapolis
Sindes Dawood, BS, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity, University Park
Kristy M. DiSabatino, MS, Department of Psychology, University of
Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain
Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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