Measuring the dark core of personality.

The Dark Triad is represented by three interrelated personality characteristics thought to share a “dark core”—that is, to be associated with a range of negative outcomes. We investigate this link alongside another potent predictor of crime, low self-control. Our analyses found the Dark Triad was strongly predictive of delinquency, especially violent delinquency, where it accounted for the effects of self-control. Yet it exerted no significant effect on drug-based delinquency. However, an interaction between the Dark Triad and low self-control remained substantive and predictive across all models, where low self-control amplified the effects of the Dark Triad on delinquency.

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Memoirs: The Golgi Apparatus in the Thyroid Gland of Amphibians, in its relation to Excretion Polarity

Journal of Cell Science ◽

10.1242/jcs.s2-76.304.615 ◽

1934 ◽

Vol s2-76 (304) ◽

pp. 615-646

Author(s):

EDUARD UHLENHUTH

Keyword(s):

Thyroid Gland ◽

Golgi Apparatus ◽

Basal Cell ◽

Active State ◽

Golgi Bodies ◽

Black Rings ◽

Incomplete Observations ◽

Close Relationship ◽

Dark Core ◽

Topographical Relation

1. The thyroids of the adult Californian newt, Triturus torosus, were examined in Zenker, Champy, and Nassonov preparations, in one series in which these glands were entirely at rest, in another series in which they underwent a spontaneous activation and in a third group in which activation had been forced by intraperitoneal injections of thyroid activator. 2. As in invertebrates so in the newt the Golgi apparatus appears to consist of two components, of one which is deeply blackened, and of another one which stains much darker than the cytoplasm and corresponds to Bowen's idiosomatic substance. The former frequently forms a shell around the latter as a core. The problem has been discussed in the light of the work published recently by Owen and Bensley. 3. Only incomplete observations are available concerning a possible relation between Golgi apparatus and functional phase of the cell. (a) In the resting condition the Golgi apparatus is relatively small and compressed in an apico-basal direction. (b) In preparation for colloid release through the basal cellends, the Golgi apparatus enlarges greatly in an apico-basal direction and its trabeculae become stout. (c) In the cells in which fluid has accumulated in large lacunae and is excreted through the basal cell-ends, the Golgi apparatus begins to become fragmented into long, slender pieces. (d) In the cells in which basal excretion has ceased and the remaining liquid has been condensed into stainable droplets, the fragments are transformed into short, thick, and lumpy pieces. (e) When the colloid droplets are redissolved and transformed into vacuoles for the purpose of refilling the follicles, the Golgi bodies appear as black rings around a dark core. 4. In most instances the topographical relation existing between the Golgi apparatus and the secretion products is not specific. The distribution of the Golgi material represents merely an accurate repetition of the distribution of the cytoplasm. 5. In some instances, however, a close relationship is found between the Golgi apparatus and the secretion products (figs.12-15, 22, 23, PI. 36). 6. In no case does the Golgi apparatus show a reversal of its position from the apex to the base of the cell. In cells which are in an active state of basal excretion the Golgi apparatus may be strictly apical. Its position does not convey a knowledge of the excretion polarity of the cell.

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More or less than the sum of its parts? Mapping the Dark Triad of personality onto a single Dark Core

Personality and Individual Differences ◽

10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 114 ◽

pp. 140-144 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Bianca Bertl ◽

Jakob Pietschnig ◽

Ulrich S. Tran ◽

Stefan Stieger ◽

Martin Voracek

Keyword(s):

Dark Triad ◽

Dark Core

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Dark core of LEC grown GaP

Journal of Crystal Growth ◽

10.1016/0022-0248(74)90340-6 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 24-25 ◽

pp. 380-382

Author(s):

M. Watanabe ◽

Shin. Takasu

Keyword(s):

Dark Core

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Diffraction and unitarity

International Journal of Modern Physics A ◽

10.1142/s0217751x16450184 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 31 (28n29) ◽

pp. 1645018

Author(s):

I. M. Dremin

Keyword(s):

Experimental Data ◽

Elastic Scattering ◽

Interaction Region ◽

Black Disk ◽

Small Impact ◽

Unitarity Relation ◽

Impact Parameters ◽

Dark Core ◽

Inelastic Processes

I begin with a tribute to V.N. Gribov and then come to a particular problem which would be of interest for him. His first paper on reggeology was devoted to elastic scatterings of hadrons. Here, using the unitarity relation in combination with experimental data about the elastic scattering in the diffraction cone, I show how the shape and the darkness of the interaction region of colliding protons change with the increase of their energies. In particular, the collisions become fully absorptive at small impact parameters at LHC energies that results in some special features of inelastic processes as well. The possible evolution with increasing energy of the shape from the dark core at the LHC to the fully transparent one at higher energies is discussed. It implies that the terminology of the black disk would be replaced by the black torus.

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