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The Predatory Partner: Deconstructing Transactional Psychopathy · Inside The Criminal Mind

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. They're they ever going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: about gold digging? How does it linked to the dark
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  Speaker 1: personality triads and psychopathy? I guess we'll find out and
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. We've all heard the term gold digger.
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  Speaker 1: It's a trope as old as time, usually flavored with
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  Speaker 1: a heavy dose of sexism and pop culture cynicism. But
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  Speaker 1: what if I told you it actually isn't about gender
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  Speaker 1: at all. What if it's actually a clinical marker of
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  Speaker 1: a much darker psychological profile, and you study just publishing
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  Speaker 1: personality and individual differences suggests a gold digging isn't just
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  Speaker 1: a lifestyle. It's a calculated social strategy powered by psychopathy
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  Speaker 1: and narcissism. Lead research or Fraith and the team found
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  Speaker 1: something chilling. Individuals who score high in the dark triad.
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  Speaker 1: That's narcissism, machavilianism, and psychopathy don't just happen to end
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  Speaker 1: up with wealthy partners. They actively sacrifice in behavioral tasks.
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  Speaker 1: These participants were willing to trade off a happy relationship
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  Speaker 1: or an empathic partner if the financial payout was high enough.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tradeoff of intimacy for resources. The study highlights
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  Speaker 1: of this behavior was present across both sexes. Interstingly, they
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  Speaker 1: found a specific pattern among left leaning men who reported
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  Speaker 1: high self perceived mate value. They often presented as vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: and pathic as a complementary behavior to secure resources, a
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  Speaker 1: wolf in sheep's clothing tactic. This isn't an isolated finding, though.
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  Speaker 1: To understand the gap here, we have to look at
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  Speaker 1: how these traits operate. In Another study in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five found that single individuals score significantly higher and dark
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  Speaker 1: triad traits than those in long term committed relationships. Why
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  Speaker 1: because the dark personality thrives in the short term, transactional
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  Speaker 1: phase of mating. When you combine Freights twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: findings with classic work on mate switching and budget allocation,
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  Speaker 1: a clear picture emerges. Narcissists seek the status of a
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  Speaker 1: wealthy partner to boast of their own ego. Psychopaths seek
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  Speaker 1: the resource for immediate gratification and lack the empathy to
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  Speaker 1: care about the partner's emotional needs the Macabelian component. They
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  Speaker 1: see the partner as a chess piece in a long
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  Speaker 1: term financial gain. However, like everything in research, there are limitations,
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  Speaker 1: so we have to be balanced. Sciences never once sided.
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  Speaker 1: Critics and historical sociologists point out a major limitation in
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  Speaker 1: darg triad research. It often ignores systemic reality. Historically, for many,
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  Speaker 1: particularly women before the nineteen seventies, seeking a financially stable partner,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't psychopathy. It was a survival strategy in a
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  Speaker 1: system where they couldn't own property or even credit. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: fries study relied on an online sample of twenty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred adults. While large self reporting on gold digging can
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  Speaker 1: be skewed by social desirability bias, people are always honest
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  Speaker 1: about their mercenary motives, even in an anonymous survey. So
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  Speaker 1: you're asking where does that leave us? The takeaway is
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  Speaker 1: the callous mindset in the research, while looking for a
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  Speaker 1: stable partner is normal. The active sacrifice of human connection
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  Speaker 1: for a bank balance as the red flag. In the end,
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  Speaker 1: go digging appears to be less about a desire for
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  Speaker 1: money and more about an inability to value people. It's
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  Speaker 1: a deficit of the heart mass is an appetite for goal.
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  Speaker 1: As we navigate this gap in modern dating, remember the
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  Speaker 1: most expensive thing in a relationship is the intimacy you
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  Speaker 1: trade away for a shortcut to the finish line, the
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  Speaker 1: study provided a robust empirical link between transactional mating and
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  Speaker 1: subclinical psychopathy. Link A member is correlational, subclinical means it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't quite qualify for psychopath, moving the conversation away from
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  Speaker 1: lazy stereotypes and toward personality pathology. However, the limitations of
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  Speaker 1: the study include a reliance on self reported data and
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  Speaker 1: a lack of longitudinal tracking. To maintain a balance VOO,
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  Speaker 1: one must distinguish between prudent financial vetting a survival security trait,
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  Speaker 1: and callous extraction, a dark triad trait. Like usual, human behavior,
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  Speaker 1: is complex,