According to the conception of emotions in Western religions, evil does not exist. Such behavior is actually nothing but the absence of goodness: man is born good, but the environment corrupts him.
However, from other perspectives, such as psychology or neurology, emotions are considered as something more complex. It has been found, for example, that some areas of the brain related to love are also activated when we hate. Who would have thought that love and hate are so closely related?
And according to some branches of psychology, we all harbor a little (or a lot) of evil..
Fascinating new research published in Scientific American he called him D-factor (or “dark factor”) to what appears to be the common core of evil that we all have. Whether the insulter, the narcissist, the sociopath or the one who enjoys cruelty, or even to whom evil thoughts only occasionally come to him: it seems that all behaviors derived from evil have a common genesis.
According to the researchers, the D-factor it is related to individual survival and to seeking it even if it entails malevolent behavior. The point is that such behaviors can be more or less innocent and more or less harmless. However, the level of D-factor it is what determines how much we let ourselves be carried away by our dark side.
For this reason, and based on these investigations, the scientists divided wickedness into nine traits, which among other things help to measure such behavior more or less precisely through a evil test.
Do you dare to know if your dark side dominates you? Take the evil test
According to Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, in charge of these psychic investigations in search of the core of evil, the nine-question test reasonably estimates how much D-factor It is part of individual behavior.
Here we leave you the set of questions, redesigned in the form of an evil test that will tell you how much darkness you harbor. If you want to dig into Kaufman’s research, You can consult his interesting and extensive article at Scientific American.
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