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The present research is aimed at clarifying meta-analytically the relation of so-called Dark Triad (DT; ie, narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy) traits to factor analytic models covering the basic personality space. Unlike recent meta-analyses that investigated such relations at the bivariate level, we used 2-stage structural equation modeling (TSSEM) meta-analysis to explore the full complexity of structural relations between DT traits and the five-factor model (FFM) and HEXACO dimensions, as well as the higher-order personality factors labeled Alpha (or stability) and Beta (or plasticity). Based on pooled matrices, covering k= 108 samples with a total N of 40,818, our findings point to the following major conclusions:(a) common elements among DT traits constitute a higher-order factor D that is not covered by Alpha and Beta;(b) no common general factor underlies all 3 higher-order traits;(c) at the dimension …