Sex drive among the Dark Tetrad
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Abstract
Consisting of Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism, the Dark Tetrad of personality have previously been linked to diverse mating strategies. Here, we expand on previous research using two sexuality self-reports: (1) sex drive and (2) pornography use. In Study 1, 779 students completed an online questionnaire that included (a) the Short Dark Tetrad inventory as well as (b) criterion questions about sex drive and pornography use. Based on previous literature, we hypothesized that narcissism and sadism would be independently associated with a composite of the two sexuality items. Multiple regression analyses confirmed this prediction. Males scored higher on all tetrad variables as well as the sexuality variables. In Study 2, a sample of 400 students at a different university replicated this ‘twin peaks’ pattern – even after (a) a 5-month predictor-criterion delay and (b) a control for relationship status. These results speak to debates over the separability of the Dark Tetrad members, and indicate that, in contrast to global sociosexuality, reports of sex drive are highest in narcissistic and sadistic individuals. • Correlates of self reported sex drive differ from those of sociosexuality. • Pornography use provides a proxy measure of sex drive. • The SD4 inventory separates Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and everday sadism. • Narcissism and everyday sadism are best predictors of sex drive. • That ‘twin peaks’ pattern is replicated in two studies.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".