Mate retention consists of behaviors that individuals engage in to maintain their romantic relationships, such as buying gifts or derogating competitors (Shackelford, Goetz, & Buss, 2005). The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the use of mate retention behaviors was associated with dark personality features (i.e., PID-5 model of personality; Krueger et al., 2012). Data were collected online via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in a single study consisting of 149 participants. A series of regression analyses showed that dark personality features had unique associations with the mate retention strategies employed by participants. For example, Antagonism was positively associated with use of Direct Guarding, Intersexual Negative Inducements, and Intrasexual Negative Inducements, whereas Detachment was negatively associated with Positive Inducements and Public Signals of Possession. Discussion will focus on the implications of these findings for the connections between personality and mate retention behaviors. --