Further playing a role in touch coercion are dark triad traits—the potentially harmful combination of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. Attachment style plays a role in the process, so it may not be dark triad traits operating alone, but only when combined with insecure attachment style. However, this process might evolve differently over time depending on whether they have that “antagonistic core,” as the authors describe it, of dark triad qualities. Maybe you never thought about the fact that some people recoil from your touch for no other reason than that they don’t like it. To sum up, people with dark triad traits will try to manipulate in all kinds of ways that you may never have realized.