Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal · 1976 · 13 citations · 1 references
Social SciencesBehavioral SciencesPsychologyPersonality PsychologyPsychometricsSocial PerceptionPersonality AssessmentPersonality TraitsSocial JudgmentTrait StructureTrait TheoryBig Five Personality ModelBig Five Personality TraitsCore Personality TraitsPersonality Trait Validity
Compared to control group data obtained under standard instructions, subjects asked to fake their replies to the Howarth Personality Questionnaire in the way they felt a Machiavellian ( i.e. , socially manipulative) individual would honestly respond scored significantly higher on Ascendance-Dominance, Trust vs Suspicion and Impulsiveness, and significantly lower on Superego, Inferiority and Cooperativeness-Considerateness. Preliminary analysis suggests that these traits are congruent with the personality characteristics of authentic high Machs.
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