Dark Triad Behaviors

The initial thought at the mention of dark sided communication tends to revolve around the exemplification of evil, psychotic or scary behaviors and practices. The association of dark sided communication is with negative personality traits featuring the dark triad or instances of obsessive relational intrusion. Typically, images of murders, psychopaths or stalkers come to mind at these communicative classifications. Consistent with the other subjects of dark sided issue, these perceptions are misconceptions developed by society as a means of glorifying love and assembling an idealized trajectory of relationships. While the three personality traits of the dark triad: psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism all share malevolent qualities, people embodying the

They are not psychopaths possessing anti-personality disorders. While the three traits have been associated with callous-manipulative interpersonal style, they do not directly make for murders and killers. The connotations attached to the dark triad are not what they seem, people with these personality traits may express the emotion the way society deems as the norm, but that doesn’t mean they are wrong. Similarly, obsessive relational intrusions are deemed major intolerances to the normative relational behaviors, often perceived to be performed by individuals whom fall under some spectrum of the dark triad. Obsessive relational intrusion, otherwise known as stalking by culture, occurs when one person wants a relationship, but the other does not. These instances usually begin innocently after meeting with text and Facebook messages. The person on the receiving end these message though respond with polite disinterested messages of rejection back. The pursuer does not recognize the implications of the messages and therefore begins showing up at the person’s school, work, home and other areas of