A touch of evil can bring fitness benefits. Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006).Photograph: Reuters
From The Guardian:
Carole Jahme shines the cold light of evolutionary psychology on readers' problems. This week: bad boys.
From a nice girl, aged 37
Dear Carole, Why do girls – even nice girls – fall for bad boys, even when the girls in question are 37 and should know much better? My friends and I don't understand ourselves.
Carole replies:
The "dark triad" of human behaviour consists of narcissism (or self-obsession), psychopathy (including callous, impulsive, thrill-seeking, risk-taking behaviour) and Machiavellianism (exploitative, manipulative and deceitful behaviour). Bad boys exhibit dark triad traits and their behaviour, according to one theory, is genetic, meaning they are unlikely to change their ways.
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