An international team of researchers including our own MSc-alumnus Björn Persson have published an article (based on Björn’s research for his MSc thesis) in Personality and Individual Differences entitled “Hedonism, Achievement, and Power: Universal values that characterize the Dark Triad“.
The study correlates Dark Triad traits (i.e. Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy) with universal social values, finding particular associations between the first two and the values Achievement and Power, and also between psychopathy and the values Hedonism and Power.