How to Analyze People With Dark Psychology

How To Quickly Identify a Person With Dark Psychology

Are you triggered? Is someone showing raging anger constantly? are you being continuously taken advantage of? Do you feel someone is emotionally insensitive? Are you frequently getting anxious? You may be looking for the answer to find if the person is trustworthy or not.

If you are looking for an answer to “how to analyze people with dark triad”, then you may be doing this to evaluate how to know if someone is trustworthy. Did you know that research suggests that whenever you see a person with a dark personality, your mind and body know instantly, and there is an amygdala activation?^​1​ Scientist conducted FMRI while showing Faces of Dark Triad to the subjects. It was found that every time they saw a dark triad of personality faces, their Amygdala got involved.

Amygdala is a flight and fight response center of the brain. AMygdala gets active whenever the body perceives a threat. These traits are being learned by the brain over our evolution of the human race. So, one of the commonest things that will happen to you is that:

you will get triggered very often when dealing with people with dark personality

This is your starting point to analyze a person with dark psychology. Want to know more? Read on.

What is a Dark Psychology?

Dark Psychology is a combination of Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machevalianism. Therefore, when you want to analyze people with dark psychology, you want to essentially analyze these factors. Some people are plain simple evil. For them, life is a chessboard, and the people around them are the pawns. They set a trophy and go to any extent to win the trophy.

They have a combination of:

• Narcissism,
• Psychopathy, and
• Machiavellianism.

The cunning, cold-blooded toxic person. They take away your identity, give you an image, a role to play as a cheerleader for them. They are your saviors, masters.

Machiavellianism^​2​

Each one of us would meet someone or the other in the workplace or in social life with such personalities who irritate us, trigger us, manipulate us. They may be your boss, colleague, or even romantic partner. And the reason you are trying to find an answer to the question of “Analyzing and Identifying dark psychology” is that you suspect, or are afraid that there is already someone in your life with a dark personality. Because a Dark triad would mandatorily have Machevallianism, a trait of manipulation, the second tell-tell sign for you to analyze a Dark Personality is:

You will feel constantly being manipulated by the person whom you suspect of having a dark personality

Is Deception The Same As Manipulation?

Again, when we talk about manipulation, you may be confused between manipulation and deception. Therefore we created a simple quiz online for you to test if you are being manipulated.

Firstly, let us understand the causes of the dark triad or so-called dark personality.

Narcissism^​3​

If you are looking for an analysis of dark personality and triad, you probably have firstly presumed that the person you are analyzing may be a Narcissist. There are two particular reasons for it, one being the charmingness, attractiveness of a narcissist, aura, and charm. Secondly, the internet is loaded with articles, videos, and ideas about narcissism. Narcissists are also manipulative.

What Separates a Dark Triad and Psychology from Narcissism is Narcissists look often for a Victim, and seek emotional energy from you, whereas a dark personality seeks object benefit like sex, work, money.

A Narcissist squeeze your emotions, whereas a dark personality squeeze your resources

You are looking for this answer, particularly because when you watched Youtube videos and read many articles, you got confused. Some traits of the person are matching with a narcissist, but many are not. Well, that’s because you are dealing with a Dark Triad.

One of the most important character traits of your that attracts narcissists is called codependency syndrome. A Codependency is your own personality vulnerability by means of which you get dependent on a narcissist. So, one of the things, you have to look for is your own vulnerabilities.

Here is a simple online codependency self-assessment quiz for you to first be confident that you are not codependent.

If your codependency scale is moderate, then you are less likely to be with a narcissist, and therefore if you are with someone, who may be triggering you, then that person is more likely to have multiple dark personality trait.

Psychopathy^​4​

Leadership Psychopathy and Gender

One of the essences of dark psychology analysis is also to understand the gender difference. Probably the person who has triggered you to look for dark psychology is a bossy person.

You might be feeling excessively dominated by the bossy individual.

Again meta-analysis paper​4​ shows that females with a high level of psychopathy, who are in a leadership position have a strong negative correlation with transformational leadership. Hence, you will discover that even being bossy, the individual is not able to transform a system or organization effectively.

Therefore,

If a woman is in a leadership position, is bossy, and yet there is no visible impact or transformation, then you female boss may be high on dark triad.

Dominance and Impulsivity

Two of the most important factors from the Psychopathy Personality Inventory Questionnaire Instrument(PPI)^​5​suggest two important traits in Psychopathy: Fearless Dominance, and Impulsivity.

If you find the person, on average more fearless than the others around you, and if you have witnessed sudden impulsive reactions, then there is a high likelihood of a very high trait of psychopathy. Also, a person with a high trait of Psychopathy has an affinity for pain. They like either giving pain or receiving pain. This is not merely limited to emotional pain, which is characterized by a Narcissist. This involves Physical pain.

Therefore, you may be dealing with a person with Dark Triad and personality, if you have seen the person throwing things, causing physical boundary breaching, and giving or taking physical pain.

Analyze Dark Psychology From Biology

It is important to also understand the Biology of a dark personality trait, because, this biology drives several behaviors of theirs. Because any mental disorder has a distinct different genetic, as well as brain pattern, there is bound to be a distinct biological pattern. If you have read through the above sections, you may already be knowing that one of the core traits of a dark personality is looking to achieve more, even at your expense. Therefore, they are bound to have low consciousness and low pre-frontal cortex activation. The prefrontal cortex analyzes the consequence of a behavior, which they don’t get activated with.

Serotonin is our consciousness hormone. Therefore, this hormone is responsible for activating PFC. Hence someone with a dark personality, dark psychology, and the dark triad is bound to have low consciousness, and thus serotonin. We call this Serotonin Syndrome.

The Serotonin Syndrome

1. Recent FMRI studies have revealed that pathological liars do not have prefrontal cortex activation. It is mostly Mid-brain managed.

2. Serotonin and dopamine hormones are responsible for Neuroplasticity and thus connect the pre-frontal cortex(high-level consciousness), Cerebellum(long memory), Hippocampus (signal encoder). So, the DTP has very low Serotonin and Dopamine. Hence they are always unhappy, moody.

3. Midbrain activates the HPA axis and thus has high Adrenaline. So they are aggressive, angry, raging, with suppressed or expressed violence.

4. Due to the lack of Serotonin, their thermal regulation is gone. So they are cold-blooded. There is no warmth when they touch you.

5. Because Serotonin also regulates the Somatic nervous system, muscle control is poor. A weak handshake, inability to do minute works like putting threads in needle, tremors.

6. Serotonin depletes sleep and vice versa. So, they can’t sleep early.

Further Biological Outcome of The Serotonin Syndrome

7. Hypothermic blood leads to Acidosis, which results in tissue Necrosis. So they continue to have several skin problems. They feel cold, and hence become hydrophobic, leading to avoiding baths and washing.

8. Obviously they have no solid memory and thus to make sense of their life, they create stories. They remember only things that satisfy their stories.

9. High Adrenaline causes vasoconstriction, leading to very high blood pressure.

10. Lack of PFC activation makes them skeptical of reality. So they become detectives and stalkers.

11. Hypothermia causes palpitations and ectopic heartbeat. Hence they become super anxious, always in a constant state of fear.

12. They try hard to overcome this fear with confidence. Under stress, this mask falls off, and they respond violently.

13. Because Gut wall Peristalsis needs high Neuron activation, which gets impaired due to Serotonin deficiency, resulting in low absorption of minerals. Hence bones, muscles, and physical strength are reduced.

14. Kidney can’t remove such a high amount of waste. So, they develop stinking body odor. Hence Toxic.

15. Super aggressive, hypertensive father, and a depressed mother who compromised to keep the family, resulting in DTP.

How to Analyze Dark Psychology With Their Biology

1. They may be using fragnance. Their natural body odour may be very stinking.
2. They may have a low body temparature, and a body touch like handshake may feel very cold.
3. They may be staying awake till late night. this would get reflected by dark circles in the eyes.
4. They may be hypertensive.
5. They may have allergy reactions like itching.
6. They may have hydrophobia, and may avoid bath.
7. They may be extremely conscious of their image, and therefore may have a very high brand consciousness.

Analyze Dark Personality From Social and Behavioural Trait

The Dark Triad Personality(DTP) is pretty much the signature of all the criminals. They convince themselves that they are good people and have no guilt, consciousness of their lies and manipulation. Their words and actions differ as ground and sky.

They are super nice as long as you agree to them. The moment you show disagreement, they lose their temper and shun you down with words and anger. You feel like walking in the shell.

They instill fear in you. They are marked by extreme hatred, jealousy, envy. They try to appear, victims, all the time. They project all the blame on you, guilt-tripping and shame-tripping you. When they say sorry, they don’t feel it. Because Serotonin is needed for feeling, as it connects the entire brain.

They can’t do anything for long, gets bored. They start but never end. They fear reality like death. So they stalk you, they want all the information.

They will silently instigate you against your loved ones and close ones. They will always appear smart, will try to find shortcuts for success. You will always feel kind of a chill and your gut will tell you. But you won’t listen to anyone.

So, a person who gets bored doing same work over and over again, and always look for new things in life, may have a dark Psychology.

DTPs are rampant among us, almost all, I guess and we are in the networked manipulative world. Recent pandemic is the biggest proof of that. Based on it manipulations are still happening royally, cunningly.
Now the Qs is why so many DTPs? The answer is addiction to the pleasure-based short term gratification system in the brain as it is shrinking rapidly, and already shrunk by 20%!! We need more connections for neuroplasticity to happen in the brain for more 5-HT release to feel happy.
Our brain lost the ability to feel it as 5-HT is rapidly depleted due to insecurity, anxiety, and lack of sleep, especially in today’s teens and working classes. Elderly are of no exception too.
Now how to achieve success? Answer is shortcuts, which needs one to be a DTP trait, no wonder.
More and more DTPs are due to the change in the societal anatomy. Comparative exhibitionism of wealth and for that whatever are required are being grabbed without any deep thought. Everyone has become a number, IIT, iim, pay package, emi, position, USA etc at the cost of the biggest natural boon to brain, that is 5-HT. No wonder why Escitalopram and SSRIs are most selling meds among my friends and relatives!

Dr. Subhagata Chattopadhyay
MBBS, DGO, PhD(IIT KGP), Post Doc(NSW),

DTP is an addiction. Once you have it, there is no going away. Your mind is taken hostage forever.

Conclusion

Hoping for them to change? This cascading pathophysiology is a clinically irreversible disorder. Don’t deplete your Serotonin hoping, hating, and getting hurt. This is an inflammatory lizard mind, with a criminal signature. Run for life, or pay by your life.

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