Multiple antisocial personalities

Engelmann et al. ask whether “personality traits [can] help us better understand economic behavior across strategic contexts” (ref. 1, p. 12781), and, as an answer to this, identify “an antisocial personality profile” (APP) (ref. 1, p. 12785). There is much to like about this investigation; in particular, it illustrates “that variations in personality can be as important as variations in ‘the situation’ and that important interactions between personality characteristics and situational features exist” (ref. 1, p. 12786). Notwithstanding this, we argue that the lack of integrating previous evidence concerning the research questions together with the cumbersome derived, theoretically nonintegrated APP hampers rather than facilitates a better understanding of an antisocial personality, and how it can interact with situational … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: cs{at}psy.ku.dk. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1