I keep my mind on my money and my money on my mind: trait machiavellianism in business majors

Dritjon Gruda; Jim A. McCleskey

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104567

I keep my mind on my money and my money on my mind: trait machiavellianism in business majors

Dritjon Gruda^*
, Jim A. McCleskey

^*Autor correspondente para este trabalho

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Recent research has shown a particularly positive association between Machiavellianism and academic major choices, namely Economics, Law, and Politics. Interestingly, previous findings indicated that the academic major Business – usually portrayed as power-hungry and greedy in mainstream media and movies – was not positively associated with Machiavellianism. In this paper, we posit that these prior results are incomplete since Business is a college major encompassing several sub-fields (e.g., Advertising, Finance, Human Resources). Using a sample of 2630 participants from 110 countries and nine business majors, we found overall support for a significant association between Machiavellianism and specific business specializations, with Finance majors scoring highest on Machiavellianism. We compare these findings to prior results and break down results by gender.

Idioma original	English
Número do artigo	104567
Número de páginas	5
Revista	Acta Psychologica
Volume	250
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104567
Estado da publicação	Publicado - out. 2024

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I keep my mind on my money and my money on my mind: trait machiavellianism in business majors

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