
BlackPillChad
Taking the Yellow Pill
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" We hypothesized that individuals with Dark Triad traits, particularly those with a Machiavellian profile, would be more likely to emit virtuous victim signals than those who do not have these traits. The functional value of this signal in an environment that is sensitive and responsive to the pleas of victims makes it reasonable to surmise that some people will repeatedly emit this signal in an opportunistic manner to initiate nonreciprocal resource transfer. A contribution we make when testing our predictions about who is most likely to emit a virtuous victim signal is validating a reliable 10-item scale to measure victim-signaling behavior in everyday life. We combined this measure with an established measure of virtue signaling to operationalize the virtuous victim signal. In Study 2b, we show that people high in the Dark Triad traits emit the dual signal more frequently"
