Authoritarianism acts as a psychological bridge for dark personalities, study finds

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• WesternInfidels@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe we should talk about “defective personalities” or “weak personalities” or “malformed personalities” or something else that sounds less cool to some people than “dark personalities.”

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ‘Power Tripping Bastard/Bitch’

    ‘Fascist Personality Disorder’

    ‘Manipulative Egomaniacal Bully’

    ‘Malignant Sociopath’

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sounds like my kind of anarcho punk band.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe we should just trust the psychology community to decide what terminology they use and not act like we know better. If anything, some psychologists consider the current terminology too stigmatizing to the point of being counterproductive.

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    • WesternInfidels@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Okay but it says:

      It is past time to abandon the term “dark” as a descriptor of antagonistic traits

      And this is exactly what I’m advocating for, even if I’m approaching from another angle.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is a dangerous path to go down.

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• rimu@piefed.social@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  [They] use disciplined rule-following and punitive authoritarian beliefs as a socially acceptable way to express their hostility.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  authoritarianism

  More an invective than a material critique. You never seem to see a party or governor critique authoritarianism when they’re in power.

  At best, you get a Reagan-esque figure mouthing Ayn Rand libertarianism while doing Christian Fascism via espionage and private back channels.

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• misk@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Both personality traits and political views in this study were self reported. Intuition seems right but that’s not a great way to measure it.

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  • akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its psypost they are a fucking trash blog spreading confirmation bias and misinformation because they always bury the important details like sample size, population characteristics, methodology, meanwhile their entire post reads like its been proven by science to the layman.

    Most often its something like n=50, population: students in Huebei province China, method: online survey…

    Headline: Men are more dominant and possessive while women are more caring and promote freedom of choice, study finds!!!

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Water is wet, more at seven

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  or its the other way around, dark personality/mental illnes is a bridge to being far right.

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