Browsing by Subject "Machiavellianism"
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Item Exploring psychological difference between adopters and non-adopters of user generated audience segmenting functions(2015-05) Dong, Zhifei; Eastin, Matthew S.; Treem, Jeffrey W.This exploratory study attempts to seek differences in levels of narcissism, Machiavellianism, self-monitoring, Internet self-efficacy (ISE), and privacy concerns and controls between adopters and non-adopters of audience segmenting on SNS, e.g. Friend List on Facebook. The uses and gratification framework was applied to build hypotheses. A survey (N =100) was conducted to test the hypotheses. Although the difference is not significant at a level that would demonstrate support for the proposed hypotheses, adopters in the sample did exhibit higher levels of narcissism, self-monitoring, ISE, and privacy concerns and control. To yield more convincing results, recommendations are provided for future improvement.Item Machiavellianism, sex, type of situation and conflict strategies(Texas Tech University, 1980-12) Chen, Hwei-jungIt seems inevitable that people will occasionally experience conflict with others in their daily lives. Either for maintaining good relationships with others, or with the desire to exert strong control over the environment and others, a person learns how to gain compliance from others and how to manage conflict. Different people may use different ways to resolve problems. The underlying reason might be the individual's learned characteristics. People with more aggressive personalities may be more active than less aggressive individuals in the conflict situation.Item Machiavellianism, types of lies, and nonverbal communication(Texas Tech University, 1979-08) O'Hair, Henry DanThe detection of deception is what the present study will focus on. Detection of deception is not a new phenomenon, Ancient Chinese authorities would have a suspected criminal chew dried rice while being interrogated. If after the interrogation the rice in the criminal's mouth was dry, the criminal was condemned. The ancient Chinese thesis was that the act of lying induces stress which causes the salivary glands to dry up (Block, 1975). Another early example of lie detection was reported by Lee (1953, 4) about a Hindu prince.Item The relationship between Machiavellianism, social goals and social aggression(2008-08) Griesemer, Sarah Ricord; Carlson, Cindy I., 1949-Social aggression -- the use of covert forms of aggression such as betrayal, gossip, and rumor-spreading -- has only recently been the focus of research and is not yet well understood. This study hypothesizes that the tactics of socially aggressive children are consistent with the social manipulations of Machiavelli. Niccolo Machiaveli wrote extensively on the coercive techniques he used to gain power, achieve his goals, and defend his country (e.g. Machiavelli, 1513/1968). Christie and Geis (1970), inspired by Machiaveli, began researching a form of social manipulation that they term Machiavellianism. While the similarities in characteristics of Machiavellian and socially aggressive children seem to indicate that they may share behavioral strategies and social goals, there is no research to date that compares these children. Additionally, since little research has examined the goals of social aggression in relational conflict situations this study used a quantitative measure of social goals in order to better understand the purpose of a child's behavior.