Mirror, mirror
Sep 19, 2021
2 minutes
by Marc Wilson
In the mid-1950s, University of Columbia professor Richard Christie developed a way to measure manipulative, deceitful behaviour, the Machiavellianism Scale. For example, do you agree that “the best way to handle people is to tell them what they want to hear”? Or that “there’s a sucker born every minute”?
In 1970, Christie and Florence Geis co-authored which summarised their work to understand
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