By
Mr. MacchiatoScientists have finally identified a "
dark triad" of personality traits that define "bad boys":
- the self-obsession of narcissism
- the deceitful and exploitative nature of Machiavellianism
- the impulsive, thrill-seeking and callous behavior of psychopaths
Not surprisingly, narcissist, Machiavellian psychopaths get more girls: "The study found that those who scored higher on the dark triad personality traits tended to have more partners and more desire for short-term relationships. ... But the correlation only held in males."
If you're a boy, do you have any dark triad tendencies? If you're a girl - are you drawn to (slightly) bad boys?
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Not at all drawn to bad boys. Ughhh.
I am The BADBOY. What you list are ridiculous stereotypes. I was legally charged and went to court for being The BADBOY, back in hi school. It was an old blue law. In court and on the booking papers it was referred to as Moral Turpitude. First thing my lawyer asked was, "What the heck is Moral Turpitude?". To paraphrase the young prosecutor, "He causes young women to desire sex." How silly is that? The judge threw it out.
According to this, no. I am no where near a bad boy.
But that doesn't mean I'm not a fighter or enjoy thrills.
Explosives, man, Explosives! One of my favorite lines is "I'll be your fireworks technition." Said in the same style as "I'm your huckleberry."
I sometimes have that side, but I rarely need to use it.
No I really don't have any of those tendencies.
i like the first and third aspects usually. i definitely go for the bad boy type.
all 3 baby, all 3
@awth44 - According to a direct quote from you posted in my entry right before this last one, you are downright evil.
If he means this post (which his entry right before the last entry of his). If not, he should link said post.
Please note that I did not post that in his entry. He quoted me (out of context) from one of Thetheologianscafe's posts about featured questions.
I used to be attracted to bad boys until I realized they were bad!
I use to love the "bad boy" thing, but like couldquite... I grew up and realized they are bad! You learn that they cannot and will not change, ever.
Bad boys are more interesting.
There's more to them.& it's also a challenge of attainability thing.The bad boys usually seem unattainable.So if you can get one of them to like you...Bad boys tend to be unstable... unpredictable... and for the girls entirely desirable...
i am a bad boy of a different kind... Unpredictable, Unstable but willing to change (i think it's exactly this constant phase of change that leads to my instability). The big problem, i'm a Christian aspiring to leadership... Which leads to a desire to be stable...
I seem to find myself comforted by this... In most anything, and in ways you can only discover by relationship... God is Unpredictable, seemingly unstable, very dangerous... and very, very desirable.
I think the world might have lost sight of what true sanity is... i think it was Carl Jung that said "Insanity is the only sane response to an insane world"