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[[File:The Dark Triad Traits.jpg|thumbnail|600px|center|The dark triad personality traits and their various sub-traits.]]
[[File:The Dark Triad Traits.jpg|thumbnail|600px|center|The dark triad personality traits and their various sub-traits.]]
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[[File:Angry man on the phone.jpg|thumbnail|600px|center|Some of the characteristics of psychopaths are being angry, rash, impulsive, and oppositional (among others).<ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-age/202210/what-everyone-should-understand-about-the-dark-triad#:~:text=Depicted%20as%20three%20overlapping%20circles,and%20oppositional%20(among%20others). What Everyone Should Understand About the Dark Triad], Psychology Today website, 2022</ref> ]]
[[File:Angry man on the phone.jpg|thumbnail|600px|center|Some of the characteristics of psychopaths are being angry, rash, impulsive, and oppositional (among others).<ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-age/202210/what-everyone-should-understand-about-the-dark-triad#:~:text=Depicted%20as%20three%20overlapping%20circles,and%20oppositional%20(among%20others). What Everyone Should Understand About the Dark Triad], Psychology Today website, 2022</ref>
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Reduced empathy, often seen in psychopathy, increases the prevalence of goal-directed aggression.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832681/ Traits of empathy and anger: implications for psychopathy and other disorders associated with aggression], ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'', v.373(1744); 2018 Apr 19</ref> Psychopaths have a greater risk of suffering from irritability/reactive aggression.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832681/ Traits of empathy and anger: implications for psychopathy and other disorders associated with aggression], ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'', v.373(1744); 2018 Apr 19</ref> Both decreased empathy and increased anger are associated with maladaptive aggression.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832681/ Traits of empathy and anger: implications for psychopathy and other disorders associated with aggression], ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'', v.373(1744); 2018 Apr 19</ref>]]
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