Narcissists and Victim Signalling: How Dark Personalities Weaponise Victimhood

The second part of this topic looking at how people with Dark Personality traits play the victim card to coerce, control and dominate others both victim and virtue signal, becoming virtuous victims in order to control and dominate others.

Recent research has shown how people with The Dark Triad personality traits of Narcissism, Psychopathy and Machiavellianism are more likely to claim, exploit and sometimes weaponise victimhood in order to avoid accountability, seek attention or resources from others.

The Dark Tetrad has a fourth trait of sadism, and this is characterised by getting pleasure form the misery and pain of others, often leading to the weaponising of victimhood.

00:00 Intro
01:00 Dark personality Traits
01:37 Common Tactics
04:20 Playing the victim card
05:25 Noble heroes
06:00 Moral Immunity
07:07 Why does it seem to work?
09:24 Why are they believed?

Part One of this video:
https://youtu.be/kYd6g4soLOs

'Signalling Virtuous Victimhood as indicators of Dark Personality' https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-46166-001

'Aggression as a Trait'
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X17301021

Other Videos you might find interesting:
Nine Traits of the Dark Personality https://youtu.be/_z4uKZ5h6yw
Internet Trolls and Dark Personality https://youtu.be/elkimw5TRQs
The Dark Empath https://youtu.be/wChB6LLpLdA
The Dark Triad https://youtu.be/ipbW6XbYqUc

If you need support for being abused there are some helpful links below.
https://mensallianceni.co.uk/
https://belfastwomensaid.org.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help
https://jreidtherapy.com/narcissistic-abuse-course/

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