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- ↑ Lukić, P., & Živanović, M. (2021). Shedding light on the Light Triad: Further evidence on structural, construct, and predictive validity of the Light Triad. Personality and Individual Differences, 178, 110876.
- ↑ Scott Barry Kaufman, David Bryce Yaden, Elizabeth Hyde, Eli Tsukayama, "The light vs. dark triad of personality: Contrasting two very different profiles of human nature", Frontiers in Psychology, 12 March 2019.