The Dark Side of the Affective Profiles

The affective profiles model is based on the combination of individuals’ experience of high/low positive affect and high/low negative affect: self-fulfilling, high affective, low affective, and self-destructive. We used the profiles as the backdrop for the investigation of individual differences in malevolent character traits (i.e., the Dark Triad: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism). A total of 1,000 participants (age: M = 31.50 SD = 10.27, 667 males and 333 females), recruited through Amazons’ Mechanical Turk (MTurk), responded to the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule and the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen. Individuals with a high affective profile reported higher degree of narcissism than those with any other profile, and together with individuals with a self-destructive profile, also higher degree of Machiavellianism and psychopathy than individuals with a low affective and self-fulfilling profile. Males scored higher in Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Together with earlier findings, our results show that while individuals in both the self-fulfilling and high affective profiles are extrovert and self-directed, only those in the high affective profile express an immature and malevolent character (i.e., high levels of all Dark Triad traits). Conversely, individuals in the self-fulfilling profile have earlier reported higher levels of cooperativeness and faith. More importantly, the unique association between high levels of positive emotions and narcissism and the unified association between negative emotions to both psychopathy and Machiavellianism imply a dyad rather than a triad of malevolent character traits.

neuroticism, respectively. For example, individuals who score high on extraversion attend and react more intensely to positive stimuli than individuals with low levels of positive affect (i.e., introverts). In contrast, individuals who score high on neuroticism attend and react more intensely to negative stimuli than individuals with low levels of negative affect (i.e., emotionally stable individuals; Larsen & Ketelaar, 1991). However, sensitivity to negative stimuli is best predicted by measures of being a neurotic introvert (i.e., being high in harm avoidance or high in neuroticism and low in novelty seeking or low in extraversion), whereas sensitivity to positive stimuli is best predicted by being a stable extravert (i.e., being high in novelty seeking or high in extraversion and low in harm voidance or low in neuroticism; Corr, Kumari, Wilson, Checkley, & Gray, 1997;Corr et al., 1995). Hence, positive and negative affect represent general biobehavioral systems: positive affect is related to the Behavioral Activation System (BAS) or sensitivity to reward as well as approach motivation, while negative affect is related to the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) or sensitivity to signals of punishment as well as avoidance motivation (Gray, 1981;Watson, 2002;Watson, Wiese, Vaidya, & Tellegen, 1999).
Following this line of thinking, Archer and colleagues have developed four affective profiles: self-fulfilling (high positive affect, low negative affect), high affective (high positive affect, high negative affect), low affective (low positive affect, low negative affect), and self-destructive (low positive affect, high negative affect; see for example, Adrianson, Ancok, Ramdhani, & Archer, 2013;Archer, Adolfsson, & Karlsson, 2008;Archer, Adrianson, Plancak, & Karlsson, 2007;Bood, Archer, & Norlander, 2004;Norlander, Bood, & Archer, 2002;Norlander, Johansson, & Bood, 2005;Palomo, Beninger, Kostrzewa, & Archer, 2008;Palomo, Kostrzewa, Beninger, & Archer, 2007). A person with a self-fulfilling profile shows high self-acceptance, high autonomy, purpose in life, high energy, and internal locus of control (i.e., agency), positive relations with others, and helpful behavior (i.e., communion), and also seek support in faith (i.e., spirituality), while a person with a self-destructive profile experiences low levels in all these variables (e.g., , 2015Garcia, Nima, & Kjell, 2014;Rapp Ricciardi et al., 2014;Schütz, Sailer, et al., 2013). These variables are all predictors of well-being or what Cloninger (2004Cloninger ( , 2006Cloninger ( , 2013 defines as feeling good (i.e., happiness), doing good (i.e., mature and actively virtuous living), physical health (i.e., absence of disease or infirmity), and prosperity (i.e., success, good fortune, and flourishing). As the affective profile model is person-centered (Garcia, 2015;Garcia, MacDonald, & Archer, 2015), it is possible to discern differences between profiles at the extreme ends of the model (i.e., self-destructive vs. self-fulfilling, low affective vs. high affective), but also within individuals that differ in one affectivity dimension and are similar in the other (i.e., self-destructive vs. high affective, self-destructive vs. low affective, low affective vs. self-fulfilling, and high affective vs. self-fulfilling). In other words, the affective profile model provides the advantage of studying multidimensional profiles of specific combinations of traits, because it allows the understanding of the experience in an individual who is "adapting within his or her biopsychosocial context" (Cloninger & Zohar, 2011, p. 25; see also . More recently, researchers (e.g., Garcia, 2012;Garcia, Kerekes, Andersson-Arntén, & Archer, 2012;Garcia, Schütz, & Archer, 2015;Jimmefors et al., 2014) have focused on differences between profiles with regard to personality measures using models such as the Big Five model (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and Cloninger's psychobiological model (Temperament and Character Inventory;Cloninger, Svrakic, & Przybeck, 1993). As hypothesized by these researchers, individuals with a self-fulfilling profile scored high in selfdirectedness, high in cooperativeness, high in persistence, high in extraversion, high in self-regulatory strategies defined as locomotion or a "just-do-it" mentality, and happiness-increasing strategies related to agency (e.g., frequently exercising, active leisure, goal-pursuit), communion (e.g., helping others, receiving help from others), and spirituality (e.g., seek support in faith). In contrast, individuals with a self-destructive profile scored high in reward dependence, high in neuroticism, high in self-regulatory strategies defined as assessment or inaction, and happiness-increasing strategies focused on suppression and rumination (e.g., suppression of negative thoughts, rumination of negative experiences). Moreover, individuals with a high affective profile were higher in reward dependence, higher in selftranscendence, higher in self-directedness, high in persistence, high in extraversion, and high in both locomotion and assessment. In contrast, individuals with a low affective profile were high in self-directedness, high in harm avoidance, and high in the self-regulatory strategy of assessment.
Taken together, these results suggest that individuals with a high positive affect profile (i.e., self-fulfilling and high affective) share certain personality features, but that individuals with a high affective profile also share features with individuals with a self-destructive profile. For example, individuals with a high affective profile are goal-directed, hard working, and agentic (i.e., high in self-directedness, high in persistence) as individuals with a self-fulfilling profile, but as individuals with a self-destructive profile they are also low in autonomy (i.e., one aspect of agency), pessimistic and tend to worry (i.e., high in neuroticism), are highly dependent on external appraisal (i.e., high in reward dependence), and ruminate about their ability to achieve goals (i.e., high in assessment). Other important differences between the individuals with a self-fulfilling and those with a high affective profile are, for example, that individuals with a high affective profile do not score high in helpful behavior, tolerance toward others, and empathy (i.e., communion and cooperative traits). Individuals with a self-fulfilling profile are, for instance, the only ones who report that they seek support in faith as one strategy in their own pursue of the happy life (Garcia, Schütz, & Archer, 2015;Schütz, Sailer, et al., 2013). However, individuals with a high affective profile score higher than individuals with low negative affect profiles (i.e., low affective and self-destructive) in self-transcendence (i.e., a spiritual trait partially defined as the ability to sense a unity with something bigger than the self; Cloninger, 2004;Garcia, 2012).
To expand the personality constructs that define each of the affective profiles, the present study aims to investigate differences between profiles in Dark Triad traits (i.e., psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism). The Dark Triad traits are, for instance, suggested to expand the Big Five personality model (Veselka, Scherme, & Vernon, 2012), that is, one of the personality models in which we have discerned differences between affective profiles. Thus, differences among profiles in their level of Dark Triad traits will also expand the current understanding of the affective profiles model. In addition, the affective profiles differ in personality traits using Cloninger's psychobiological model, which is related to the Big Five model but yet a distinctive model of personality that measures character traits (Garcia, Anckarsäter, et al., 2015). To the best of our knowledge, Cloninger's psychobiological model has not been used in conjunction with the Dark Triad. Hence, using the affective profiles model to map the Dark Triad traits in conjunction with earlier discerned personality differences among affective profiles in two different personality models might contribute to the debate of the Dark Triad as three distinctive traits (i.e., uniqueness argument; for example, Jones & Paulhus, 2011;Rauthmann & Kolar, 2013;Vernon, Villani, Vickers, & Harris, 2008) or as one global trait (i.e., unification argument; for example, Jonason, Li, & Teicher, 2010;Jonason, Li, Webster, & Schmitt, 2009;Jonason & Webster, 2010;Jones & Figueredo, 2013). Before discussing our expectations and the implications of these relationships in the context of Cloninger's biopsychosocial model of personality, we briefly present the Dark Triad and how individuals' Big Five personality traits are related to their malevolent traits.
The Dark Triad: Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Narcissism Paulhus and Williams (2002) coined the term Dark Triad when they identified three clusters of personality traits at a subclinical level within the normal population: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. Psychopathy refers to high impulsivity, thrill-seeking, and low empathy and anxiety (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). The Machiavellian personality includes manipulative behaviors and deception for self-benefit (Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006). Individuals high in Machiavellianism are cynical, misanthropic, cold, pragmatic, and show immoral beliefs, and detached affect (Rauthmann & Will, 2011). Individuals high in narcissism show exaggeration of self-worth and importance, superiority over others, and are manipulative toward others yet they have a fragile sense of the self (Ames, Rose, & Anderson, 2006). They show vanity to an extreme, are constantly seeking attention, and harbor feelings of entitlement they do not deserve (Lee & Ashton, 2005). In other words, these traits are at the conceptual level different from each other (i.e., the uniqueness argument). Nevertheless, previous research has showed that the three traits have low to moderate correlations with one another (Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006;Lee & Ashton, 2005;Paulhus & Williams, 2002). Paulhus and Williams, for example, reported positive intercorrelations between narcissism and psychopathy, and between Machiavellianism and psychopathy. There was also a low intercorrelation between narcissism and Machiavellianism. Although these results have been replicated in some studies (e.g., Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006), they have not been replicated in others (e.g., Vernon et al., 2008). In addition, some studies report stronger correlations between the dark traits, while others report weaker correlations (e.g., Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006;Lee & Ashton, 2005;Paulhus & Williams, 2002;Vernon et al., 2008). Hence, there is a wide range of mixed results on how interrelated the dark traits actually are.
In line with the uniqueness argument, however, individuals high in narcissism stand apart by their high scores on selfenhancement (Furnham, Richards, & Paulhus, 2013;Jones & Paulhus, 2011). Self-enhancement, for instance, has been associated with extrinsic spiritual behavior (Sedikides & Gebauer, 2010), that is, spiritual behavior adopted as a means to an end (Allport & Ross, 1967). Individuals high in psychopathy, on the other hand, are different from individuals scoring high in the others Dark Triad traits because they also score high on impulsivity (Jones & Paulhus, 2011). Nevertheless, individuals high in levels of each of the Dark Triad traits share also high levels of agency and low levels of communion (Jones & Paulhus, 2011;Paulhus & Abild, 2011), which supports the unification argument.
Indeed, research on the Dark Triad shows these traits correlate with aggression, bullying, and racism, that is, antagonistic behaviors in interpersonal situations (i.e., low communion). High levels of psychopathy, for example, are positively related to direct (i.e., physical or verbal) and indirect aggression (i.e., gossiping, spreading rumors; Douglas, Bore, & Munro, 2012;Muris, Meester, & Timmermans, 2013), high levels of Machiavellianism are positively associated with both forms of aggression but more strongly to indirect aggression, and narcissism is positively linked to direct forms of aggression (Kerig & Stellwagen, 2010;Lau & Marsee, 2013). With regard to bullying, psychopathy is the one dark trait most strongly related to bullying, followed by Machiavellianism and narcissism (Baughman, Dearing, Giammarco, & Vernon, 2012). It is important to point out that bully/victims score significantly higher than non-bully/nonvictims on psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism (Linton & Power, 2013). The Dark triad is positively correlated with out-group threat perceptions, anti-immigrant prejudice (Hodson, Hogg, & McInnes, 2009), and different forms of racism (Jones, 2013). High levels of Machiavellianism predict modern racism (i.e., specific types of inequality rather than negative responses to minorities in general), whereas high levels of psychopathy predict old-fashioned racism (embedded in opposition of any form of racial equality). In sum, the three dark traits seem to share a non-cooperative core, but with different nuances of non-cooperative behavior. This suggests a one global trait structure (i.e., unification argument) rather than a ternary structure (i.e., uniqueness argument). In this context, researchers have turned to one of the most common and reliable model of personality, the Big Five, to discern differences and similarities between individuals who express these malevolent traits.

A Dyad of Personality Models: The Dark Triad and the Big Five Model
As it could be expected, individuals who score high in any of the three Dark Triad traits score low in agreeableness as well. Individuals who score high in psychopathy and narcissism score also high on extraversion and openness. Those high in Machiavellianism and psychopathy score low in conscientiousness, while individuals high in psychopathy also score low in neuroticism (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). As with the relationships within the triad, relationships between the triad and the Big Five traits have been replicated in some studies (Lee & Ashton, 2005) but not in others (Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006). Yet other studies report correlations between each of the Dark Triad traits and several of the Big Five traits, for example, high psychopathy with low agreeableness and low conscientiousness, and high narcissism with high extraversion, high openness, and low agreeableness (Vernon et al., 2008). Thus, even if there are some correlations between the Dark Triad and the Big Five, these are neither large nor consistent and this indicates that the two models represent overlapping but distinct clusters of personality (Vernon et al., 2008).
The most consistent finding is that individuals who express high levels in any of the Dark Triad traits also score low in agreeableness (Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006;Jonason & Webster, 2010;Lee & Ashton, 2005;Paulhus & Williams, 2002). Importantly, agreeableness is positively related to the character trait of cooperativeness in Cloninger's model (De Fruyt, Van De Wiele, & Van Heeringen, 2000, Garcia, 2012Garcia, Anckarsäter, et al., 2015). For instance, while the Dark Triad as one global construct (i.e., the sum of all three traits) is related to low levels of agreeableness, high levels of extraversion, high levels of openness, low levels of neuroticism, and low levels of conscientiousness, the only common correlate for each unique dark trait is low levels of agreeableness . This does, as discussed earlier, suggest a common uncooperative core for the three dark traits (i.e., unification argument).

The Present Study
The aim of this study was to investigate differences between affective profiles in the Dark Triad traits. To the best of our knowledge, no other studies have investigated these differences. We expect this to expand the research on differences in personality between affective profiles because the Dark Triad traits are suggested to expand the Big Five personality model (Veselka et al., 2012), which is one of the personality models already studied using the affective profiles model. Research on the Dark Triad has a fairly detailed picture of which of the Big Five personality traits help to discern diferences (i.e., uniqueness argument) and commonalities (i.e., unification argument) among the Dark Triad traits. This is, however, not the case for Cloninger's model of personality, which has already been used to discern differences in personality between affective profiles. Hence, using the affective profiles model as the framework for differences in malevolent tendencies, in conjunction with earlier discerned personality differences among profiles, might contribute to the debate of the Dark Triad as one global trait (i.e., unification argument) or three distinctive traits (i.e., uniqueness argument).
In the context of affectivity, psychopathy seems to be associated with high levels of negative affect (Love & Holder, 2014), which is a marker for neuroticism and harm avoidance. In contrast, psychopathy is associated with low levels of positive affect (Love & Holder, 2014), which is a marker for low levels of extraversion and self-directedness. Thus, suggesting that individuals with a self-destructive profile (low positive affect/high negative affect) can be expected to be high in psychopathy. In this line, individuals with a self-fulfilling profile (high positive affect, low negative affect) have been depicted as more cooperative and tolerant to others, more stable, and conscious, whereas individuals with a high negative affect profile (i.e., high affective and self-destructive) are depicted as less agreeable (Garcia, 2012;Garcia et al., 2014). These earlier findings suggest that individuals with a high affective or a self-destructive profile should score higher in the Dark Triad traits. Nevertheless, one obvious difference between individuals with a high affective and those with a selfdestructive profile is that individuals with a high affective profile experience high positive affect, which is positively related to extraversion (see, for example, Garcia's [2012] study, in which individuals with a high affective profile score higher in extraversion compared with individuals with a self-destructive profile). Extraversion is, for instance, positively related to narcissism (e.g., Paulhus & Williams, 2002;Vernon et al., 2008). Therefore, we expected individuals with a high affective and a self-destructive profile to be higher in both psychopathy and Machiavellianism compared with individuals with a self-fulfilling or a low affective profile, but this two high negative affect profiles (i.e., self-destructive and high affective) were expected to differ in narcissism-the individuals with a high affective profile being the ones expected to score higher in narcissism.

Ethics Statement
The review board of the Network for Empowerment and Well-Being approved the research protocol, which was found to comply with the law concerning research involving humans and requiring only informed consent from the participants. Participants, workers from the crowdsourcing platform Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), provided their consent by simply accepting the task (or HIT as it is called in MTurk) and then answering the survey. This acceptance is recorded electronically together with the participants' answers.

Participants and Procedure
The participants (N = 1,000, age M = 31.50 SD. = 10.27; 667 males and 333 females) were recruited through MTurk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome). MTurk allows data collectors to recruit participants (workers) online for completing different tasks in exchange for wages. This method for data collection online has become more common during recent years and it is an empirical tested valid tool for conducting research in the social sciences (see Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011). Participants were recruited by the following criteria: being U.S. resident and being able to speak and read fluent in English. Participants were paid a wage of .20 cents of American dollars for completing the task and informed that the study was anonymous and voluntary. The participants were presented with a battery of selfreports comprising the affect and Dark Triad measures, as well as demographic questions (e.g., age, sex). We included two validity check items to control for random responding ("In this question, please answer either agree or disagree"). A total of 52 individuals out of 1,052 (i.e., 5.20%) were dropped from the final analysis because they answered erroneously to one or both validity check items.

Instruments
Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule. The instrument (Watson et al., 1988) instructs participants to rate to what extent they generally have experienced 20 different feelings or emotions (10 positive affect and 10 negative affect) during the last weeks, using a 5-point Likert-type scale (1 = very slightly, 5 = extremely). The 10-item positive affect scale includes adjectives such as strong, proud, and interested. The 10-item negative affect scale includes adjectives such as afraid, ashamed, and nervous. We averaged together the responses to each item to create an index of each scale.
The Dark Triad Dirty Dozen. The instrument (Jonason & Webster, 2010) is composed of 12 items (Likert-type scale: 1 = not at all; 7 = very much), four for each Dark Triad trait: psychopathy (e.g., "I tend to lack remorse"), Machiavellianism (e.g., "I have used deceit or lied to get my way"), and narcissism (e.g., "I tend to want others to admire me"). We averaged together the responses to each item to create an index of each trait.

Statistical Treatment
Participants' positive and negative affect scores were divided into high and low using the median as reference and then combined to create the four affective profiles (cutoff points in the present study: high positive affect = 3.20 or above; low positive affect = 3.10 or less, or above; high negative affect = 1.90 or above; low negative affect = 1.80 or less). This resulted in 281 individuals with a self-fulfilling profile, 216 with a low affective profile, 198 with a high affective profile, and 305 individuals with a self-destructive profile. The distribution of the participants over the profiles showed that the number of individuals in the low affective and high affective profiles were about the same. Similarly, about the same number of participants was allocated to the selfdestructive and self-fulfilling profiles (see Table 1). A Shapiro-Wilkes test for normality showed that the affective profiles scores on the Dark Triad, except for high affective individual's scores on Machiavellianism, deviated from the normal distribution. Nevertheless, the Central Limit Theorem suggests that, with sufficiently large sample sizes, it is plausible to assume that sampling distributions of means are normally distributed regardless of the distributions of the variables (Tabachnick & Fidell, 2007). Moreover, there were no significant results on Levene's test for homogeneity of variance with the profiles as the independent variable.
To check for the validity of the profiling of the participants, we contacted an independent researcher who has worked with k-means analyses as the method for the personoriented approach on individual differences. Our data were submitted to this analysis. Specifically, Ward's hierarchical cluster analysis was used to divide the sample into four groups, and k-means cluster analysis used the starting points from this analysis to investigate whether individuals actually ended up in a group most similar to their affective profile. The weighed mean of clusters homogeneity coefficient was .73. Suggesting a good model fit and that the participants in the present study were categorized in four profiles using their combination of self-reported affect (S. MacDonald, personal communication on January the 2nd, 2015). Part of the data in the present study was used in a study in which we address methodological questions regarding the median split and cluster approaches (see Garcia, MacDonald, & Archer, 2015).
A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was calculated with affective profiles and sex as the independent variables and the Dark Triad traits as the dependent variables. Table 3 shows the means and standard deviations (±) for the different profiles and across sex. There was a significant main effect of the affective profiles on the Dark Triad traits, F(9, 2409.55) = 6.45, p = .001, Wilks's λ = .94, η 2 = .02. The profiles differed in psychopathy, F(3, 992) = 5.78, p = .001, η 2 = .02. A post hoc test using Bonferroni correction to the alpha level showed that individuals with a self-destructive (M = 2.86, SD = 1.25) and a high affective (M = 2.90, SD = 1.37) profile scored higher on psychopathy compared with individuals with a self-fulfilling profile (M = 2.49, SD = 1.20).
The affective profiles differed in Machiavellianism as well, F(3, 992) = 10.18, p = .001, η 2 = .03. A post hoc test using Bonferroni correction to the alpha level showed that individuals with a high affective profile (M = 3.68, SD = 1.35) and individuals with a self-destructive profile (M = 3.54, SD = 1.30) scored higher on Machiavellianism compared with individuals with a low affective profile (M = 3.14, SD = 0.97) and individuals with a self-fulfilling profile (M = 3.15, SD = 1.34). Furthermore, the profiles also differed in narcissism, F(3, 992) = 12.26, p = .001, η 2 = .04. A post hoc test using Bonferroni correction to the alpha level showed that individuals with a high affective profile (M = 4.25, SD = 1.27) scored higher on narcissism compared with individuals with a selfdestructive profile (M = 3.88, SD = 1.26) and individuals with a self-fulfilling profile (M = 3.77, SD = 1.38). Individuals with a low affective profile scored lower on narcissism (M = 3.43, SD = 1.29) compared with all profiles but the self-fulfilling. For a summary of the differences, see also Figure 1.

Discussion
The research on affective profiles has a 10-year long history, while the number of studies on the Dark Triad has increased fast during the last years. To expand earlier findings that show differences in personality traits between individuals with different affective profiles, were we interested in differences between profiles in the Dark Triad traits. The Dark Triad traits show, for instance, significant phenotypic, genetic, and environmental correlations to measures of personality traits that are distinct to those measured in the Big Five model (Veselka et al., 2012), thus, making these dark traits non-explored territory in the context of the affective profiles model. Moreover, if individuals with different affective profiles varied in their Dark Triad traits, this was expected to shed some light into the debate of unification versus uniqueness of these malevolent traits. After all, individuals with different affective profiles have shown variance in personality traits commonly (i.e., the Big Five model) and non-earlier (i.e., Cloninger's psychobiological model) used to investigate associations to the dark trait. The most important findings were that (a) individuals with a high affective profile reported higher degree of narcissism than individuals with any of the other profiles, and they also reported higher levels of Machiavellianism and psychopathy than individuals with a low affective or a self-fulfilling profile and that (b) individuals with a self-destructive profile also were higher on Machiavellianism and psychopathy compared with individuals with a low affective or a self-fulfilling profile. For a summary of the differences in the present study, see Figure 1. Earlier findings show that individuals with a self-fulfilling or a high affective profile share high levels of agentic traits, such as self-directedness (i.e., goal-directedness, self-acceptance, etcetera) and persistence (i.e., a personality trait describing an individual who is perfectionist and hard working; see among others Garcia, 2012;Garcia et al., 2012). The present results, however, show that despite the fact that individuals with any of these two profiles might be defined as high in agentic traits, individuals with a self-fulfilling profile scored lower in the Dark Triad traits, while individuals with a high affective profile scored high in these malevolent traits. That is, high levels in the malevolent triad are associated with positive affect when negative affect is high (see Figure 1). In this context, earlier results show that, compared with the other profiles, including the high affective, the self-fulfilling scores the highest in communal traits (i.e., cooperativeness); traits that comprise tolerance toward others and empathic and helpful behavior (Garcia, 2012; see Figure 2). Accordingly, individuals who score high in levels of each of the Dark Triad traits share also high levels of agency and low levels of communion (Jones & Paulhus, 2011;Paulhus & Abild, 2011).
Nevertheless, others have suggested that it is not correct to dismiss the Dark Triad as simply low in communal traits (e.g., agreeableness, cooperativeness)-a person high in the Dark Triad traits is predominantly disagreeable, but also an extravert (Furnham et al., 2014). Indeed, individuals with a high affective profile, compared with those with a low positive affect profile (i.e., low affective and self-destructive), are high in extraversion (Garcia, 2012; see Figure 2). Nevertheless, individuals with a high affective profile have been found to be high in neuroticism, as those with a selfdestructive profile, but low in harm avoidance, as those individuals with a self-fulfilling profile. In other words, all these three profiles (i.e., high affective, low affective, and selfdestructive; see Figure 2) are rather emotionally unstable compared with the self-fulfilling profile (Garcia, 2012). However, individuals with a high affective profile show, at the same time, a tendency to be fearless, carefree, courageous, energetic, outgoing, and optimistic even in situations that worry most people (i.e., low harm avoidance). Psychopathy is, indeed, negatively associated with harm avoidance (Fowles & Dindo, 2006). In other words, individuals with a high affective profile seem to be high in agentic traits (i.e., self-directedness, persistence, extraversion), low in communal traits (i.e., cooperativeness, agreeableness), high in the dark traits (i.e., psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism), and low in harm avoidance, but high in neuroticism. In contrast, individuals with a self-destructive profile are low in agentic traits, low in communal traits, and high in dark traits, but high in both harm avoidance and neuroticism (see Figure 2). Nevertheless, our finding linking psychopathy to the selfdestructive profile, a profile in turn linked to high neurotic Note. F = higher when compared with individuals with a self-fulfilling profile; L = higher when compared with individuals with a low affective profile; D = higher when compared with individuals with a self-destructive profile; ♂ = higher than females. All significant at p < .01. and high in harm avoidant behavior, is at first sight counterintuitive. Psychopathy has after all been found to correlate negatively to neuroticism (e.g., Paulhus & Williams, 2002) and negative affect (Love & Holder, 2014), which is almost synonymous with neuroticism (e.g., Tellegen, 1993;Watson et al., 1988). Nevertheless, some studies have not replicated the link high psychopathy-low neuroticism (Veselka et al., 2012). The findings presented here, however, suggest that both high and low neuroticism (emotional stability being the opposite end of neuroticism) might be found in individuals high in psychopathy, hence suggesting the probability of both a emotionally stable (tentatively high in affectivity: high affective) and a emotionally instable psychopath (tentatively low in positive affect and high in negative affect: selfdestructive). Importantly, psychopathy was only higher when profiles at one extreme end of the model where compared (i.e., self-destructive vs. self-fulfilling, see Figure 1) or within profiles high in positive affect that vary in negative affect (high affective vs. self-fulfilling, see Figure 1). Hence, psychopathy does not seem to be higher within profiles low in positive affect that vary in their negative affect levels (self-destructive vs. low affective, see Figure 1), within profiles with high negative affect that vary in their positive affect levels (self-destructive vs. high affective, Figure 1), or within profiles with low negative affect that vary in their positive affect levels (low affective vs. self-fulfilling, Figure  1). Furthermore, Machiavellianism differed between profiles at both extreme ends of the model (high affective vs. low affective and self-destructive vs. self-fulfilling, Figure 1), but also within profiles low in positive affect that vary in their levels of negative affect (self-destructive vs. low affective, see Figure 1) and within profiles high in positive affect that vary in their levels of negative affect (high affective vs. self-fulfilling, see Figure 1). Moreover, individuals with a high affective profile scored higher in narcissism compared with all profiles, even compared with individuals with a self-destructive profile. This was expected because individuals with a high affective profile score higher in extraversion compared with individuals with a self-destructive profile-extraversion is after all positively related to narcissism (e.g., Paulhus & Williams, 2002;Vernon et al., 2008). The matched comparisons, however, Figure 1. Differences found between individuals with affective profiles that are at their extremes: self-destructive versus self-fulfilling (low-high positive affect, high-low negative affect) and low affective versus high affective (low-high positive affect, low-high negative affect). Differences found when individuals were matched in one affective dimension, and differed in the other (i.e., within differences): self-destructive versus high affective (matching: high-high negative affect, differing: low-high positive affect), self-destructive versus low affective (matching: low-low positive affect, differing: high-low negative affect), high affective versus self-fulfilling (matching: high-high positive affect, differing: high-low negative affect), and low affective versus self-fulfilling (matching: low-low negative affect, differing: lowhigh positive affect).
suggest a complex picture for narcissism. This dark trait differed between individuals at one extreme end of the affective profile model (low affective vs. high affective), but also within profiles that were high in negative affect and varied in their levels of positive affect (self-destructive vs. high affective, see Figure 1), within profiles that were low in positive affect and varied in their levels of negative affect (selfdestructive vs. low affective, see Figure 1), and within profiles that were high in positive affect and varied in their levels of negative affect (high affective vs. self-fulfilling, see Figure 1). Moreover, in relation to earlier research, individuals high in narcissism stand apart by being high in selfenhancement (Furnham et al., 2013;Jones & Paulhus, 2011), which is in turn associated with extrinsic spiritual behavior (Sedikides & Gebauer, 2010). Extrinsic spiritual behavior is adopted as a means to an end (Allport & Ross, 1967). In this context, individuals with a high affective profile score high in spiritual traits (i.e., self-transcendence) compared with individuals with a low affective and self-destructive profile (Garcia, 2012; see Figure 2). Nevertheless, only individuals with a self-fulfilling profile report seeking support in faith (Schütz, Sailer, et al., 2013). We argue that this suggests that individuals with a high affective profile have a more means to an end approach to their spirituality/self-transcendence. The high affective profile is for instance depicted using Cloninger's model of personality, as high in self-directedness, low in cooperativeness, and high in self-transcendence (Garcia, 2012;Garcia et al., 2012). Cloninger labels this specific character combination as "fanatical" (e.g., Cloninger & Zohar, 2011). Individuals with this character combination are prone to depression but also paranoid (Cloninger, 2004;Josefsson, Merjonen, Jokela, Pulkki-Råback, & Keltikangas-Järvinen, 2011). That is, our findings suggest that narcissism should be associated with these types of disorders. Nevertheless, this is a question for future research that should include measures of character and the Dark Triad traits along the affective profile model.
Finally, we found that men scored higher in psychopathy and slightly higher in Machiavellianism compared with women. This is accordingly to earlier research showing that men score higher than women in all three Dark Triad traits Jonason et al., 2009;Jonason & Figure 2. Summary of the personality trait differences between affective profiles in the present and other studies (e.g., Garcia, 2012;Garcia, Kerekes, Andersson-Arntén, & Archer, 2012).
Note. The black ring points to traits that are shared by individuals with high levels of psychopathy and Machiavellianism in the present study. Reprinted with permission from Well-Being and Human Performance Sweden AB.
Webster, 2010). However, narcissism did not differed between men and women in the present study and the differences in Machiavellianism were rather small. This is, nonetheless, also in line with other studies Paulhus & Williams, 2002). Our results also replicated those findings suggesting positive correlations between Machiavellianism and psychopathy (Paulhus & Williams, 2002) and correlations between Machiavellianism and narcissism (Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006). This last finding is, however, contradictory to that from other studies (e.g., Paulhus & Williams, 2002).

Limitations and Strengths of the Present Study
It is plausible to point out some potential issues with the choice of using MTurk to gather the data: for example, workers' attention levels, cross-talk between participants, and the fact that participants get remuneration for their answers (Buhrmester et al., 2011). Nevertheless, a large quantity of studies show that data on personality scales collected through MTurk meet academic standards and it is demographically diverse (Buhrmester et al., 2011;Horton, Rand, & Zeckhauser, 2011;Paolacci, Chandler, & Ipeirotis, 2010). Moreover, data on health measures collected through MTurk show satisfactory internal as well as test-retest reliability (Shapiro, Chandler, & Mueller, 2013). In addition, the amount of payment does not seem to affect data quality, remuneration is usually small, and workers report being intrinsically motivated (e.g., for enjoyment) to take part in surveys (Buhrmester et al., 2011).
With regard to the Dark Triad measure used here (i.e., Dark Triad Dirty Dozen; Jonason & Webster, 2010), it is important to point out that while some researchers find it as an appropriate measure of these malevolent traits, others have criticized its validity (e.g., Lee et al., 2012;Miller & Lynam, 2012;. For sake of brevity Jonason and Webster's (2010) Dirty Dozen only comprises 12 items (four for each trait), while other measures, such as, Jones and Paulhus' (2014) the Short Dark Triad comprises 27 items (seven for each trait). For instance, the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen has demonstrated less predictive power (e.g., Lee et al., 2012) compared with the measure developed by Jones and Paulhus (2014;the Short Dark Triad). In addition, although we opted to use a 7-point Likert-type scale, as in Jonason and Luévano's (2013) study, some studies have used a 5-point Likert-type scale (e.g., Jonason, Li, & Czarna, 2013;Jonason, Slomski, & Partyka, 2012) or a 9-point Likert-type scale (e.g., Jonason & Webster, 2010). Hence, it is difficult to compare samples and our findings need to be replicated using more reliable measures of the Dark Triad.
Finally, the allocation of the participants to different profiles using median splits has some methodological problems (Garcia, MacDonald, & Archer, 2015). For instance, median splits distort the meaning of high and low because scores just-above and just-below the median become high and low by fiat, not by reality (Garcia, MacDonald, & Archer, 2015;. To avoid this problem, some studies have used larger samples as reference to create the profiles of smaller samples (e.g., Rapp Ricciardi et al., 2014), others have opted to use the cutoff points found in the original study (i.e., Norlander et al., 2002), and yet others have used aged-based cutoff points (e.g., Garcia, 2011). Nevertheless, using more sophisticated approaches (e.g., k-means cluster analysis) to allocate individuals in profiles, based on self-reported affect, also arrives to a four profiles solution as theorized by Archer (e.g., Garcia, MacDonald, & Archer, 2015;MacDonald & Kormi-Nouri, 2013). This was also the case for the sample used here. To the best of our knowledge, no study has established which of the methods (median split vs. cluster analysis) construe the profiles more statistically accurate or has analyzed whether there are differences in the results depending on the approach being used. Importantly, the categorization is based on the theoretical framework of the affective system as being composed of independent dimensions. Hence, the affective profiles model goes beyond the view of affect as two separate systems and takes into account the interaction of both dispositions and also observations of two-system theories suggesting that, when using dichotomous features, combinations must be ruled out (for a point of view on two-system theories, see Garcia, 2011;Keren & Schul, 2009). In other words, while there are differences between individuals in positive and/or negative affect, these two components of the affective system exist within each individual. On the basis of this independent coexistence of self-regulation (i.e., approach behavior vs. avoidance behavior), it is plausible to assume that there exist differences within the individual as wellsome experiencing high positive affect but low negative affect or any combination in-between.
Our findings using the affective profile model suggest that the description of an individual high in the Dark Triad traits is complex and that, as suggested by Furnham and colleagues (2013), studies comparing the dark traits with other personality traits might need to investigate differences at the subscale level. For instance, individuals with a high affective profile have scored lower than individuals with a self-fulfilling profile in the agentic trait of autonomy . In other words, although both the self-fulfilling and the high affective are high in agentic traits, such as, selfdirectedness they might differ in aspects of self-directedness describing self-discipline and self-control, which are negatively associated with the Dark Triad traits (Jonason & Tost, 2010).

Conclusion and Final Remarks
In sum, the affective profiles model allows the comparison between individuals taking into account the different combinations of individuals' affective experience. The strength of the model is that comparisons take into consideration that individuals can be diametrically different (low affective vs. high affective and self-destructive vs. self-fulfilling) or equal in one aspect of their affective experience and at the same time different in the other (i.e., high affective vs. self-fulfilling, low affective vs. self-fulfilling, self-destructive vs. low affective, and self-destructive vs. high affective; see Figure  1). In light of the results presented here, some suggestions and predictions are warranted in regard to the unification versus uniqueness Dark Triad traits' debate. First, we suggest that narcissism is uniquely different from the other three dark traits because it is the only dark trait to be associated with high positive affect when negative affectivity is high (selfdestructive vs. high affective). A direct translation of the findings to other models of personality could be that, while narcissism shares low levels of agreeable and cooperative behavior with the other dark traits, narcissism is positively related to extrovert behavior (e.g., high positive affect, socializing) only when the individual is also high in neurotic behavior (e.g., high negative affect, emotionally unstable). This is accordingly to the description of a narcissistic personality as involving a grandiose yet fragile sense of the self (Ames et al., 2006).
At a first look, psychopathy and Machiavellianism seem to mostly be associated with negative affect, both the high affective and self-destructed profiles scored high in these malevolent traits. However, Machiavellianism was associated with high levels of negative affect when positive affect was high (high affective vs. self-fulfilling, Figure 1) and low (selfdestructive vs. low affective, Figure 1) or when profiles at both extreme ends of the model were compared. Psychopathy on the other hand was associated with high negative affect only in two instances: when profiles at one extreme end of the model were compared (self-destructive vs. self-fulfilling) and when positive affect was high (high affective vs. self-fulfilling, Figure 1). In other words, while Machiavellianism is generally associated with high levels of negative affect, psychopathy has a unique association with high negative affect only when positive affect is high at the same time. This also suggests that psychopathy should be positively related to extrovert behavior (e.g., high positive affect, socializing) only when the individual is high in neurotic behavior (e.g., high negative affect, emotional stable). But psychopathy should also be positively related to the opposite of extrovert behavior, that is, introvert behavior (e.g., low positive affect, being reserved and a loner), under the same premises (i.e., high in neurotic behavior). At the end, however, psychopathy and Machiavellianism seem to have more similarities than differences, at least when it comes to affectivity (see Figure 1). Thus, our study suggests that there are two unique traits in the triad, narcissism being one of them, because it is uniquely associated with positive affect when negative affect is high. The other is probably a global antisocial trait composed of psychopathy and Machiavellianism that is related to negative affect in general.
Our results suggest that individuals who score high in the Dark Triad traits might have lesser of the attributes linked to the self-fulfilling profile: agency (i.e., self-acceptance, autonomy, goal-directedness), communion (i.e., cooperation, helpfulness, empathy), and intrinsic spirituality (i.e., seeking support from faith). These attributes together form a creative character and are all necessary for well-being or what Cloninger (2004Cloninger ( , 2006Cloninger ( , 2013 defines as feeling good (i.e., happiness), doing good (i.e., mature and actively virtuous living), physical health (i.e., absence of disease or infirmity), and prosperity (i.e., success, good fortune, and flourishing) (see also Falhgren, Nima, Archer, & Garcia, 2015). In contrast to individuals with a high affective profile and who are also high in some agentic and some spiritual traits, individuals with a self-fulfilling profile are not self-centered, manipulative, or malevolent. For instance, self-fulfilling individuals with a creative character, such as, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King (Cloninger, 2004), have imposed important changes for humanity using, for example, civil disobedience (Thoreau, 2009). This behavior has led their oppressors to see them as villains. The difference between a hero and a villain might be that the hero pursue communal values in an agentic and spiritual manner, while the villain is all about agency and manipulation of communal and spiritual values (for recent research on the difference between agentic/communal values and agentic/communal traits showing important effects on happiness, see Abele, 2014).
In the end, my kingdom was united not by a hero or a villain, as legend had predicted, but by one who was both hero and villain. And her name was Maleficent. (From the movie Maleficent, 2014)