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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Machiavellianism"”.
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The Exploration of Machiavellianism
… high in a personality trait referred to as Machiavellianism (i.e., Mach) than other common professions. To better understand how Machiavellianism influences commonplace dyads in settings applicable to everyday situations commonly found in a practical and academic setting, a more thorough …
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Machiavellianism, social insight, and power of department heads
Department heads are viewed in this study as potential administrative agents of change for innovation in higher educational organizations. Due, however, to the low role power attributed to them by faculty, it was hypothesized that department heads’ manipulative orientation and social insight would …
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Aberrant self-promotion versus Machiavellianism: a differentiation of constructs
The purpose of the present study was to demonstrate behavioral differences between high Machiavellians (MACHS) as described by Christie (1970a) and those exhibiting the aberrant self-promotion pattern proposed by Gustafson and Ritzer (1995). The aberrant self-promoter (ASP) was defined as having a …
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Aberrant self-promotion versus Machiavellianism: a discriminant validity study
… the aberrant self-promotion construct from the Machiavellianism construct proposed by Christie (1970a). The aberrant self-promoter (ASP) has been conceptualized as exhibiting high self-esteem, low social desirability, and a high degree of antisocial behavior. In contrast, the Machiavellian has …
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Socially desirable responding on the Machiavellianism scale: Response bias or construct?
The Mach IV scale measures Machiavellianism, the propensity to be manipulatory in interpersonal relations. The Mach IV has been criticized for social desirability response bias, or the tendency to present oneself in an overly favorable light. Socially desirable responding, as measured by the …
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Machiavellianism and female friendships: Investigating behaviour through self-report and observational methods
There is a paucity of research investigating Machiavellianism and its influence on female behaviour, and specifically, female behaviour with same-sex friends. Furthermore, there is a lack of research investigating the subtle (manipulative) behaviour that may be associated with Machiavellianism. The …
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An Exploration of Corporate Social Responsibility and Machiavellianism in Future Health Care Professionals
The purpose of this study was to explore the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) orientations of future healthcare professionals and their relative viewpoint of CSR in terms of Socioeconomic or Classical. The study also sought to determine the nature and the strength of relationships between CSR …
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Exploring Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism in Youth: An Examination of Associations with Antisocial Behavior and Aggression
This study sought to explore the differential associations of CU traits, narcissistic traits, and Machiavellian traits with overt aggression, relational aggression, delinquency, behavioral dysregulation, and emotional dysregulation in a community sample of boys and girls (ages 11-17). Results …
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Tinfoil hats and togas : conspiracy ideation and the dark triad amongst university students
… high in Dark Triad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) may be susceptible to believing conspiracy theories to a greater extent. This present research studied conspiracy theories and Dark Triad traits in University of Malta students. Participants came from …
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Rationalizing Ethically Questionable Intentions: An Investigation of Marketing Practices in the USA.
… of neutralization, perceived moral intensity, Machiavellianism, unethical intentions, and ethical judgment. Using a sample of 276 U.S. marketing professionals, partial least squares structural equation modelling was used to validate the model. Findings reveal that U.S. marketing professionals …
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PERSONALITY AND ETHICAL DECISION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
… the three personality traits of Allocentrism, Machiavellianism and Long-Term Orientation, and the moderating variable of Biological Sex were analyzed with multinomial logistic regression to predict a respondent's justification of moral philosophy across three different scenarios. Although none …
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Investigating the Impact of Dark Personalities on Counterproductive Work Behaviour
… between the "Dark Triad" personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) and CWB in UK call centres. Utilising Social Exchange Theory (SET), the research investigates how perceived organisational support and religiosity influence this link. Employing a positivist approach …
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Investigating the Impact of Dark Personalities on Counterproductive Work Behaviour
… between the "Dark Triad" personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) and CWB in UK call centres. Utilising Social Exchange Theory (SET), the research investigates how perceived organisational support and religiosity influence this link. Employing a positivist approach …
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A study of the Machiavellian orientation locus of control and job satisfaction of a selected sample of Virginia public school secondary level principals
… relationships between two personality variables, Machiavellianism (i.e., manipulativeness) and locus of control as well as the combined relationships of these two variables with a third, affective variable, job satisfaction. A sample of 225 public school secondary level administrators were given …
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Obstacles to executive coaching during planned radical organisational change
… their attitude towards executive coaching, their Machiavellianism and their change-readiness. Details about their previous roles in PROC, their rank and current employer were also collected. Nearly half of these leaders were in organisations with more than 10,000 employees and over three-quarters …
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The role of psychopathy in scholastic cheating: self-report and objective measures
… The significant predictors were psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, low Agreeableness and low Conscientiousness. However, only psychopathy remained significant in a multiple regression. Study 2 replicated this pattern using a naturalistic, behavioural indicator of cheating -- plagiarism …
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Gossip as an interpersonal communication phenomenon
… be related to indirect interpersonal aggression, Machiavellianism, and tendency to gossip. The data from Study Two indicated that the 3-factor Gossip Functions Questionnaire was, in fact, significantly positively related to each of the variables above.
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The King's Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I
… play not as an example of what has been called “Machiavellianism” but rather as a testament to the power of what Cicero calls the "good man skilled in speaking.”</p> <p> </p>
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Rating Leadership Potential From Above: The Effects of Implicit Theories on Supervisors' Ratings of Leadership Potential
… Additionally, both proactive personality and Machiavellianism were found to influence the social categorization process. These results may help inform future theory regarding IFTs andhigh potential practices.
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