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ERIC Number: EJ223269
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1980-Mar
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Machiavellianism and Spontaneous Cheating in Competition.
Cooper, Sloan; Peterson, Christopher
Journal of Research in Personality, v14 n1 p70-75 Mar 1980
Assigned undergraduates to groups defined by combination of factors: opportunity to cheat, type of competition, subject Machiavellianism (Mach). Cheating occurred in opportunity to cheat, impersonal competition, high Mach group and in opportunity to cheat, personal competition, low Mach group. Extends research to situations where subjects cheated at their own initiative. (Author)
Descriptors: Cheating, Competition, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences, Social Behavior, Spontaneous Behavior, Undergraduate Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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