1. The subset of dark personality features that has garnered the most empirical attention to date is the Dark Triad which includes narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). These traits share characteristics such as disagreeableness, callousness, deceitfulness, egocentrism, lack of honesty-humility, and tendencies toward interpersonal manipulation and exploitation. The Dark Triad traits are considered to be socially aversive but they do not necessarily indicate clinically significant levels of pathology. Our goal for the present study was to gain a better understanding of the Dark Triad personality traits by examining their associations with scales from the MMPI-2-RF which is often used to measure personality structure and psychopathology. Participants were 81 undergraduates (15 men, 66 women) at a university in the Midwestern region of the United States who were enrolled in psychology courses and participated in return for partial fulfillment of a research participation requirement. Participants completed measures of the Dark Triad – along with other measures that are not relevant to the present study (e.g., self-esteem level) – via a secure website. Then, participants completed the MMPI-2-RF in the laboratory. The median age of the participants was 19 years and their racial/ethnic composition was 70% White, 12% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 8% Other. A series of multiple regression analyses were conducted to assess the associations between Dark Triad personality traits and the MMPI-2-RF scales. For the sake of simplicity, only the higher-order scales of the MMPI are presented. As can be see in Table 2, Emotional/Internalizing Dysfunction (EID) was found to be negatively associated with Primary Psychopathy and NPI Leadership/Authority, whereas EID was positively associated with NPI Exploitativeness/Entitlement. No significant associations emerged for Thought Dysfunction (THD). However, Behavioral/Externalizing Dysfunction (BXD) was found to be positively associated with NPI Leadership/Authority but negatively associated with NPI Grandiose Exhibitionism. Using the MMPI-2-RF to gain a better understanding of the Dark Triad Thomas D. Ewing, Christopher J. Holden, Gillian McCabe, & Virgil Zeigler-Hill Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309 NPI. Narcissism was assessed using the 40-item version of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Hall, 1979, 1981) which has three facets: Leadership/Authority, Grandiose Exhibitioinism, and Expoitativeness/Entitlement. LSRPS. Psychopathy was measured using the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRPS; Levenson et al., 1995). This version of the instrument consists of two subscales: Primary Psychopathy and Secondary Psychopathy. Mach-IV. Machiavellianism was measured using the Mach-IV (Christie & Geis, 1970) which is a 20-item instrument. MMPI-2-RF. T he Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF: Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008) is a 338-item instrument designed to assess personality structure and psychopathology. The results indicate that the MMPI-2-RF has individual and unique associations with various dark personality features. For example, the Emotional/Internalizing Dysfunction (EID)subscale of the MMPI-2-RF has a positive association with the Leadership/Authority subscale of the NPI, but has a negative association with Primary Psychopathy. Future studies should utilize different measures of dark personality when assessing their association with the MMPI-2-RF. Results Measures Introduction Participants Conclusions