People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us
From this research, which took her five years, Mitchell built a template of 20 attributes, , divided into four clusters, and 25 tactics that would identify a high-functioning persistent predatory personality type.
Cluster one includes
a need for control;
a grandiose sense of self;
pathological inner response to challenge;
vengefulness;
refusal to compromise.
Cluster two includes
being predatory or exploitative;
sadistic and cruel;
having a low regard for laws, agreements, social and moral codes;
no boundaries in sexual relationships;
unreasonable expectations of others.
Cluster three relates to the truth: D
Dark Personalities cultivate a façade of normality;
they are chameleon-like;
dishonest;
devious and manipulative; and
unwilling to accept responsibility for the negative impacts they cause.
Finally, cluster four is around the Dark Personality’s own interior life:
their emotions are acted and they do not experience affinity or the joy that comes with it;
[OP] chocobean | 14 hours ago
From this research, which took her five years, Mitchell built a template of 20 attributes, , divided into four clusters, and 25 tactics that would identify a high-functioning persistent predatory personality type.
Kerry56 | 6 hours ago
Those clusters combine to describe Trump as well as I've ever seen.