A new paper published by a team of psychologists at the University of Alabama refutes the idea that “Machiavellian personalities” — or those who have a penchant for being strategic, deceptive, and ...

In the cutthroat world of corporate leadership, being strategically cunning may pay off—literally. Researchers at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business recently published a study ...

Imagine if your personality could predict what college major you're likely to choose. Well, that's what one of our latest studies was about. Based on a publicly available dataset of 35,025 ...

Machiavellian traits include deception, manipulation, and high self-interest. The Mach-IV test can measure if someone shows Machiavellian personality traits. People with Machiavellian traits may ...

If so, you might rank highly in Machiavellianism - a personality trait that's based on the writing and views of Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th-century Italian political philosopher. We look at what ...

Researchers from University of New Hampshire, University of Kentucky, Texas A&M University, and Florida State University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines the effect ...

HAVE YOU EVER met someone who seemed like the most charming, intelligent, and confident person ... ever? But, after a few months of dating, you started to see another side to them—one that’s ...

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