ABSTRACT

In the past decade, research on the dark triad of personality (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) has demonstrated a strong relationship to a number of socially aversive moral judgments such as sacrificial utilitarian decisions in moral dilemmas. This study widens the scope of this research program and investigates the association between dark triad personality traits and anti-natalist views, i.e., views holding that procreation is morally wrong. The results of this study indicate that the dark triad personality traits of Machiavellianism and psychopathy are strongly associated with anti-natalist views. Further, depression is found to be both standing independently in a relationship with anti-natalist views as well as functioning as a mediator in the relationships between Machiavellianism/psychopathy and anti-natalist views. This pattern was replicated in a follow-up study. These findings add to the literature on dark triad personality traits and their relationship to moral judgments, suggesting that personality and mood play a substantive part in variation in anti-natalist views in a lay population.

摘要

在过去十年中，对黑暗人格三元组（马基雅维利主义、自恋和精神病态）的研究表明，它与许多社会厌恶的道德判断（例如道德困境中的牺牲功利主义决定）密切相关。本研究扩大了本研究计划的范围，并调查了黑暗三合会人格特征与反出生论观点之间的关联，即认为生育在道德上是错误的观点。这项研究的结果表明，马基雅维利主义和精神病态的黑暗人格特质与反自然主义观点密切相关。此外，发现抑郁症在与反自然主义观点的关系中独立存在，并且在马基雅维利主义/精神病和反自然主义观点之间的关系中充当中介。这种模式在后续研究中得到了复制。这些发现增加了关于黑暗三合会人格特征及其与道德判断的关系的文献，表明人格和情绪在外行人群的反自然主义观点的变化中起着重要作用。