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UK study: right-leaning party members favor 'dark triad' leaders

Researchers publish 'dark triad' party membership study via The Conversation

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The study's authors detail survey research on 4,266 members of Labour, the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Greens and Reform UK, testing whether members' own dark-triad traits predict a preference for leaders who display narcissism, Machiavellianism or psychopathy. They report that the higher members scored on these traits, the more they favored abstract leadership behaviors tied to the same traits, an effect strongest among right-leaning party members.

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