Psychopaths, Narcissists, Machiavellians, Toxic Leaders, Coercive Controllers: Subsets of One Overarching 'Dark' Personality Type?

This thesis presents a model that is potentially the most comprehensive and nuanced representation yet developed of socially aversive personalities (Dark Personality, DP). The breadth of harm imposed by people of DP, including psychopaths, narcissists, and Machiavellians, is substantial and impacts millions of people daily in the most painful and destructive of ways. There is, however, substantial dissension regarding their shared attributes which is not in the interests of humankind, as identification of human predators is key to survival. New and unique approaches to research and highly knowledgeable research populations not previously canvassed for data were engaged for this study.