Do Certain Personality Traits Increase the Potential for Joining a Terrorist Organization?

A review of whether dark-triad traits or mental disorder predict terrorist affiliation, and how weak the evidence is.

The review is organized around four competing hypotheses rather than a single thesis: whether elevated dark-triad traits raise the probability of joining a terrorist organization; whether negative personality traits correlate with it; whether mental disorder relates to terroristic behaviour; and whether social dominance orientation does.

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