Dan Jones

Dan Jones is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Nevada, Reno, College of Business, where he also serves as Director of the Ph.D. in Business Administration Program. His research focuses on toxic personality traits, particularly the Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) and Dark Tetrad (including sadism), examining their links to unethical behavior in organizational, cybersecurity, and criminal contexts.

• Ph.D., Personality and Social Psychology, University of British Columbia (2011)
• M.A., Social Psychology, University of Arizona (2005)
• B.S., Psychology, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (2001)

His work bridges psychology and business ethics, exploring deception strategies, moral disengagement, and organizational misbehavior. He has contributed to understanding how dark personalities influence financial misconduct, cyberattacks, and interpersonal aggression, with recent studies addressing phishing vulnerabilities and legal/illegal profit-seeking behaviors.

His publications include analyses of the Dark Triad's role in cybersecurity, corporate crime, and relationship dynamics. He co-developed the Dark Triad Peer Assessment (D3PA) and investigates strategies to mitigate harmful behaviors through inoculation against moral disengagement and real-time phishing defenses.

Dr. Jones advises Ph.D. candidates Edit Szabo and Sogol Mozafari. He leads the Dark Triad & Corporate Climate Lab, which studies personality-environment interactions. His research spans psychology, business ethics, criminology, and cybersecurity, with applications in organizational policy and security training.