The People Who Expect Less From Love: What Dark Triad Research Reveals About Intimacy (opens in new tab)

There are people who enter relationships hoping to be deeply known. Then there are people who enter relationships hoping things remain emotionally manageable, strategically calm, and preferably free from unnecessary vulnerability. A new study suggests those differences are not random personality quirks. They may reflect fundamentally different expectations about intimacy itself. The research, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, examined how Dark Triad personality ...