Dark Triad Personality Test
Measure your Machiavellianism, narcissism, and subclinical psychopathy tendencies in a 27-question self-reflection quiz.
27 questions
6 min
Instructions
Rate how much you agree with each statement based on how you generally think, feel, and behave — not how you wish you were. There are no right or wrong answers, and honest responses matter because some questions are worded in reverse. This quiz looks at three everyday personality tendencies (strategic manipulation, self-centeredness, and cold/reckless impulsiveness) that exist on a spectrum in everyone.IPIP public domain items (JPI-R, CAT-PD-SF v1.1, and NEO proxy scales, ipip.ori.org), rendered with the standard first-person IPIP response stem; construct organized around the Jones & Paulhus (2014) Dark Triad model, no SD3 items reproduced.
Citations
- International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), JPI-R Scales — Machiavellianism (Social Astuteness): https://ipip.ori.org/newJPI-RKey.htm Ipip items are public domain. used for machiavellianism items incl. reverse keyed items.
- International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), CAT-PD-SF v1.1 Scales — Manipulativeness, Mistrust, Grandiosity, Exhibitionism, Domineering, Callousness, Non-Planfulness, Risk Taking: https://ipip.ori.org/newCAT-PD-SFv1.1Keys.htm Ipip items are public domain. rk items used as reverse keyed; first person stem applied to ipip phrase fragments without changing wording.
- International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), NEO Scales — A5 Modesty: https://ipip.ori.org/newNEOKey.htm#Modesty Ipip items are public domain. modesty items are reverse scored within the narcissism dimension.
- Jones, D. N., & Paulhus, D. L. (2014). Introducing the Short Dark Triad (SD3). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 30(3), 180-189. Construct reference for the three factor dark triad model only; no sd3 items reproduced.