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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
we're here because your heightened awareness deserves heightened entertainment the last show with david cooper When people choose a career, is it about their passion, skills, maybe money, or maybe some advice a guidance counselor gave them? Well, new research suggests something darker might be steering your ship. Your personality's darker side might inform how you choose a job.
Let's talk about it with someone who's researched just this. She is a psychologist and researcher at Ulm University in Germany, and her name is Leah DeHassel. Leah, welcome to the show.
Chapter 2: What are the dark sides of personality that influence career choices?
Hi, thanks David for having me today. Before we talk about like dark personality traits influencing your job decision in life, what are some of the dark sides of people's personality? Like how would we categorize that? Yes, I think personality itself is a term that everyone kind of knows, and it's sort of like how you would describe people.
So in general, when we think of personality, I think we think of not necessarily the dark side, but rather the light side. Like someone's very outgoing, very extroverted, or very open to other people. And when we talk about the dark side, we talk about more like manipulating others, disregarding others' interests.
exploiting them cheating on them um these kind of things and in research we actually had for the past couple of years something called the dark triad which are three big dark personality um traits and they are um psychopathy narcissism and machiavellianism
All subclinical, so please don't think of, like, psychopaths who are in jail because they did some crimes or anything, but rather just general tendencies that, honestly, every one of us has, at least a little bit. And in my research, or my colleagues' research, we don't actually use the dark triad, but more of the dark core of personality. That sounds like something out of Star Trek.
What does that mean, the dark core of personality? Yeah, so when you look at the dark trades I just described, they all correlate very highly, which means that if you score high on one trade, you also typically score high on another trade. And this led... as to the idea that there is some sort of like common core, common underlying construct there that influences all of these traits.
And this is what my professor and his colleagues then called the defector. So just this common underlying disposition that makes people evil. All right. And so this curiosity that this dark factor or D factor can draw you to a certain type of job. I've heard in like therapy, this concept of sublimation.
I don't want to get too much in the weeds here, but it's like, okay, the kid who's the bully and very violent maybe grows up and becomes a boxer. Or maybe the kid who gets no attention from his parents grows up and becomes a radio host. I'm just talking someone who isn't me. Is it kind of like that? Like these negative traits?
can then inform the job that you choose as an adult or is the mechanism a little different here? So I'm not 100% fully sure of what the mechanism is. And honestly, I don't think anyone is. And just because job choices depend on a lot of things. So of course, you have sort of your personality, like if you're outgoing or you're very social or you're not social at all.
because you score higher on the dark trades. And then there's also, of course, interests and they usually correlate or, you know, are linked together. And this then sort of with, of course, also what opportunities you have, then decides on your job choice or maybe in what like way or direction you orient yourself. So let's get to the results.
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