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Parts of the Dark Triad
The Dark Triad is a newly discovered cluster of personality traits that are made up of three parts. Those three parts of the Dark Triad is Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy.

Narcissism has been mainly been studied as an abnormal personality disorder but there are normal aspects such as dominance, exploitation and feelings of entitlement.

Machiavellianism is a trait that describes cold and manipulative personality traits of people. People who tend to score higher on these traits end up using manipulation for self benefit.

Gender Invariance across the Dirty Dozen
Gender invariance across the Dirty Dozen was tested using the Measurement Invariance method. The study found that men generally scored higher in narcissism and psychopathy than women, and that there was little variance between sex for Machiavellianism. One explanation was that the traditional gender roles in society contribute to these differences. A 2017 study, using three separate samples of adults from northern Italy and an Italian version of the Dirty Dozen measure, found that the difference in scores between men and women are not caused by measurement errors. it also found that men scored much higher than women in Machiavellianism and psychopathy than in narcissism.

Construct Validity and the Dirty Dozen
One study claimed that the Dirty Dozen gives mixed results on the construct validity of previous studies done on it. To show this, the study used a sample of over 3000 people and measured the convergent validity of the traits to other measures and questionnaires. They then used the Item Response Theory to analyze all of the results. This showed that there was a bi-modal distribution in the traits and that the scale was better at revealing Machiavellianism and Psychopathy than Narcissism.

Relationships
Dark Triad deals a lot of negative aspects in peoples life but we wanted to look at how these aspects will affect them in their romantic relationships. In most cases these traits will cause people to end up in shorter-term relationships. The people who tend to be higher in these traits will be in relationship types such as; "One-night stand, which is when you have sexual relations with the person only once", "hook ups", "friends with benefits, which is when there is a relationship with a friend but do not define a the relationship as a romantic one" , " booty calls, solicitation from a non long term relationship for the intent of sexual relations". People who score high in Dark Triad traits tend to correlate negatively with long term relationships. Also people who score high in these traits also report lower in relationship satisfaction. These people are more likely to terminate relationships rather than people who score lower in these traits.