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Abstract Social-personality and clinical perspectives have suggested that psychopathology has self-presentational features, but the extent to which this idea has merit is unclear. To advance understanding, participants (N = 247) completed indices of personality-disorder (PD) traits (i.e., negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism) and indicated their past use of various self-presentation tactics. As anticipated, unique variance of antagonism and negative affectivity related to enhanced ingratiation, supplication, self-promotion, and accounting tactics, but unique variance of antagonism also related to enhanced blasting, intimidation, and reduced apologies; unique variance of disinhibition only related to reduced exemplification and apologies; unique variance of detachment related to reduced use of most self-presentation tactics; unique variance of psychoticism had only weak and statistically non-significant relations to self-presentation tactics. The present results provide novel insight into how personality pathology relates to self-presentation styles.