Dark Tetrad and Empathy among Male and Female Adults: A Review
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Abstract
One might think dark tetrad personality traits are void of empathy, but that’s not true. A well-establish certain dark trait to possess average to high empathetic capabilities. Although the word empathy holds a positive connotation, here empathetic characteristics in dark tetrad personalities can be used to manipulate others and use it as a weapon for self-interest and personal gains. To recognise an even darker side to these traits, this study aims to identify gender as a variable, a different dark tetrad, and their empathetic capabilities. After doing a careful review of 45 researchers it was found that all Dark Tetrad traits have a negative correlation with affective empathy. This was consistent among all the studies. However, cognitive empathy’s relationship with dark tetrad traits is not that simple. Different studies had contradictory results. Studies also showed that both empathy and dark tetrad traits independently show differences in males and females. However, further research is required to find mediating relationship between both.