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

This book provides a taxonomy of personality traits that are dark, or have maladaptive characteristics, and are connected to destructive behaviors and interpersonal problems. Adaptive features are also reviewed, as are clinical applications and future directions for research. Dark personality traits are connected to a host of behavioral and interpersonal problems. To better understand and address these problems, this book unites personality psychology and clinical psychology to provide an interdisciplinary taxonomy of dark personality traits. The Dark Side of Personality expands upon the amp quot Dark Triad amp quot -narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism-to encompass traits that have largely been ignored or not characterized as dark (e.g., spite, authoritarianism, and perfectionism). Drawing from recent research on the Big Five personality dimensions, each trait is presented as a complex spectrum of adaptive and maladaptive features with unique clinical implications.

Table of Contents:
Contributors Introduction: A Bright Future for Dark Personality Features?  Virgil Zeigler-Hill and David K. Marcus I. Antagonism The Dark Side of Narcissism  Emily A. Dowgwillo, Sindes Dawood, and Aaron L. Pincus Contemporary Conceptualizations of Callous Personality Features From Childhood to Adulthood  Dustin A. Pardini and James V. Ray Fearless Dominance and Its Implications for Psychopathy: Are the Right Stuff and the Wrong Stuff Flip Sides of the Same Coin?  Scott O. Lilienfeld, Sarah Francis Smith, and Ashley L. Watts The Nature of Machiavellianism: Distinct Patterns of Misbehavior  Daniel N. Jones Everyday Sadism  Delroy L. Paulhus and Donald G. Dutton Spite  David K. Marcus and Alyssa L. Norris II. Disinhibition A Review of Sensation Seeking and Its Empirical Correlates: Dark, Bright, and Neutral Hues  Jessica L. Maples-Keller, Danielle S. Berke, Lauren R. Few, and Joshua D. Miller Urgency: A Common Transdiagnostic Endophenotype for Maladaptive Risk Taking  Melissa A. Cyders, Ayca Coskunpinar, and J. Davis VanderVeen Distractibility: Interrupted by an Inability to Ignore  Tammy D. Barry, Karin Fisher, Kristy M. DiSabatino, and Theodore S. Tomeny III. Rigidity Deep, Dark, and Dysfunctional: The Destructiveness of Interpersonal Perfectionism  Gordon L. Flett, Paul L. Hewitt, and Simon S. Sherry Authoritarianism: Positives and Negatives  Steven Ludeke The Dark (and Light) Sides of Overconfidence  Joyce Ehrlinger and Alex Eichenbaum IV. Negative Affectivity Dark Side of the Mood or Sweet Emotion? Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Emotional Lability Kim L. Gratz, Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, and Diana Whalen Anxiousness and Negative Affectivity in the Personality and Internalizing Disorders  Anthony J. Rosellini and Timothy A. Brown Depressivity and Anhedonia  Ellen M. Kessel and Daniel N. Klein The Dark Sides of High and Low Self-Esteem  Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Christopher J. Holden, Ashton C. Southard, Amy E. Noser, Brian Enjaian, and Noah C. Pollock Interpersonal Dependency  Robert F. Bornstein V. Current and Future Issues Understanding the Dark Side of Personality: Reflections and Future Directions  David K. Marcus and Virgil Zeigler-Hill Index About the Editors

About the Author :
Virgil Zeigler-Hill, PhD, is an associate professor and the director of graduate training for the Department of Psychology at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He has written more than 2 journal articles and book chapters that focus on these topics. Dr. Zeigler-Hill has edited two previous books: Self-Esteem and Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology. He is currently an associate editor for Self and Identity, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Evolutionary Psychology.   David K. Marcus, PhD, is a professor and the chair of the Department of Psychology at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of more than 75 journal articles. Much of his work focuses on psychopathy and antisocial behavior, but his research interests are diverse and include studies on spitefulness, hypochondriasis, psychotherapy outcomes and processes, and interpersonal perception. He is currently the editor of Group Dynamics and serves on the editorial boards of Psychological Assessment and the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.  

Review :
amp ldquo This is an exceptionally timely work. amp rdquo -PsycCRITIQUES