For many years personality has been an area of interest for many researchers and as a reaction to the increasing number of researches on the dark triad of personality, in the last few years there has been a tendency to research human virtues. That means helping and selfless, growth-oriented human behavior known as light triad of personality. Given the nature of these two constructs, emotional manipulation and emotional intelligence are also included in this research. Accordingly, the goal of this research was to examine the relationship between the dark and light triad of personality with emotional intelligence and emotional manipulation and the predictive contribution of the dark and light triad, emotional intelligence and certain sociodemographic characteristics of the tendency to emotional manipulation. The results have shown that women, on average, achieved a higher score on the scale of emotional intelligence and expressed higher levels of light triad personality traits, while men had more pronounced dark triad personality traits and were more prone to emotional manipulation. Furthermore, positive associations of dark triad traits with emotional manipulation were established; humanism and faith in humanity with emotional intelligence and narcissism with emotional intelligence. Negative associations were established between the features of the light triad and emotional manipulation; humanism and kantianism with features of the dark triad and faith in humanity with machiavellianism and psychopathy. There was no significant correlation between emotional intelligence and kantianism, emotional manipulation, machiavellianism and psychopathy. Also, the connection has not been established between faith in humanity and narcissism. Speaking of the predictive contribution to emotional manipulation, gender (men had higher results) and the dark triad of personality (positive predictors) proved to be significant, with psychopathy having the greatest predictive contribution. All three bright triad personality traits together did not have a significant independent contribution in explaining the variance of emotional manipulation, although kantianism itself proved to be a significant negative predictor of emotional manipulation.