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Znakov V. V.
Machiavellianism and fib phenomenon
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The article deals with the study of relationship
of the level of personal machiavellianism and the
subject's tendency to fib in the situations of
interpersonal communication. Three hypotheses have
been proved: 1) people, inclined to fib, in
experiments show high marks by machiavellianism
scale; 2) they have a relatively low level of
selfrespect and low selfesteem of moral qualities
of personlity by "Personality differential", low
marks in altruism factor of Liri's method and, on
the contrary, high marks in suspiciousness factor;
3) in women's personality structure
machiavellianistic attitudes and abilities are
less expressed than those in men's, therefore the
psychological basis of understanding of fib
situations are primarily different in women and
men.
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