The Light Triad: Psychologists Outline the Personality Traits of Everyday Saints

Researchers come up with a 'light triad' test to mirror the famous 'dark triad.'

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By Lacy Schley
Apr 5, 2019 7:15 PMMay 19, 2020 5:36 AM
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If stories about psychopaths fascinate you, you might’ve heard of something called the dark triad. It’s a trio of traits that psychologists developed in the early 2000s to measure the more sinister aspects of human personality. Now, a team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Hawai’i-West O’ahu has finally crafted a counterpart test of the so-called light triad traits.

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