| This data was collected through an online personality test billed as "Dark Triad Personality Test". | |
| It was constructed with several scales, this data covers two of them: | |
| 1. The Hyper Sensitive Narcissism Scale. Hendin, H.; & Cheek, J. (1997). "Assessing Hypersensitive Narcissism: A Re-examination of Murray\'s Narcissism Scale". Journal of Research in Personality, 31, 588-599. | |
| 2. The Dirty Dozen. Jonason, P.; Webster, G. (2010). "The Dirty Dozen: A Concise Measure of the Dark Triad". Psychological Assessment, 22(2), 420�432. | |
| These two yielded the following items that were rated on a five point scale (1 labelled as "Disagree", 3 labelled as "Neutral", 5 labelled as "Agree"; 0 = missed) | |
| HSNS1 I can become entirely absorbed in thinking about my personal affairs, my health, my cares or my relations to others. | |
| HSNS2 My feelings are easily hurt by ridicule or the slighting remarks of others. | |
| HSNS3 When I enter a room I often become self conscious and feel that the eyes of others are upon me. | |
| HSNS4 I dislike sharing the credit of an achievement with others. | |
| HSNS5 I feel that I have enough on my hands without worrying about other people's troubles. | |
| HSNS6 I feel that I am temperamentally different from most people. | |
| HSNS7 I often interpret the remarks of others in a personal way. | |
| HSNS8 I easily become wrapped up in my own interests and forget the existence of others. | |
| HSNS9 I dislike being with a group unless I know that I am appreciated by at least one of those present. | |
| HSNS10 I am secretly "put out" or annoyed when other people come to me with their troubles, asking me for my time and sympathy. | |
| DDM1 I tend to manipulate others to get my way. | |
| DDM2 I have used deceit or lied to get my way. | |
| DDM3 I have used flattery to get my way. | |
| DDM4 I tend to exploit others towards my own end. | |
| DDP1 I tend to lack remorse. | |
| DDP2 I tend to not be too concerned with morality or the morality of my actions. | |
| DDP3 I tend to be callous or insensitive. | |
| DDP4 I tend to be cynical. | |
| DDN1 I tend to want others to admire me. | |
| DDN2 I tend to want others to pay attention to me. | |
| DDN3 I tend to seek prestige or status. | |
| DDN4 I tend to expect special favors from others. | |
| On the next page the following information was requested: | |
| age entered as text | |
| gender chosen from list where 1=Male, 2=Female, 3=Other (0=missed) | |
| accuracy participants were instructed to rate how accurate their answers were about themselves on a scale from 0 (random) to 100 (tried their best), participants were instructed to answer 0 if they did not want their data used. Only participants who gave a positive non zero answer were retained. | |
| And then: | |
| country The location of the participant. Determined with technical information. ISO country code. |