Dark Triad as Selection by the Very Wealthy: Elite-Aligned Leadership Emergence Under Person-Situation Dynamics by Stefan A. GEIER
Dark Triad as Selection by the Very Wealthy: Elite-Aligned Leadership Emergence Under Person-Situation Dynamics by Stefan A. Geier Institute for Structuralistic Theory of Sciences Simssee ISTS, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 6, 83071 Haidholzen, Germany, and LMU Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany; To whom correspondence should be addressed: Stefan Geier, Institute for Structuralistic Theory of Sciences Simssee ISTS, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 6, 83071 Haidholzen, Germany, Europe, Blue Planet Earth, email: wissenschaftstheorie.simssee.1@gmail.com - Discussion and Critique Welcome! - Abstract The Dark Triad, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, captures socially aversive personality tendencies that can facilitate status striving, strategic manipulation, and callous decision-making in nonclinical populations (1–3) . Leadership selection, however, is also shaped by the incentives and gatekeeping structures created by concentrated...