In a rigged coin-flip game, victim signalers were more likely to lie about outcomes to win money. In a workplace scenario where nothing actually happened, they were more likely to claim a competing intern 'made demeaning or derogatory remarks' or 'put you down in front of coworkers.' The correlation between victim signaling and Dark Triad traits held at r = .35 in Study 1 and r = .52 in a replication with a stronger scale, even after controlling for gender, ethnicity, and income.
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