{"id":68315,"date":"2025-11-12T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/machiavellianism\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:04:11","slug":"machiavellianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/machiavellianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Machiavellianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>within the framework of the Dark Triad (see Dark Triad in Chapter 1.7 Key Psychological Concepts in Personality Psychology) is considered as a subclinical trait characterized by a person&#8217;s tendency to manipulation, strategic thinking, disregard for ethical norms for the sake of achieving personal gain, and a reduced level of empathy. The term comes from the name of Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli, the author of the treatise &#8220;The Prince&#8221;, which justifies political immorality for the sake of success<br \/>\nThe main manifestations are:<br \/>\n1) The use of lies, deception and seduction;<br \/>\n2) High level of interpersonal cynicism;<br \/>\n3) Detachment from other people&#8217;s emotions;<br \/>\n4) Cold pragmatism and prudence;<br \/>\n5) Ignoring social morality;<br \/>\n6) Dominance in interpersonal relationships;<br \/>\n7) Suspiciousness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>within the framework of the Dark Triad (see Dark Triad in Chapter 1.7 Key Psychological Concepts in Personality Psychology) is considered as a subclinical trait characterized by a person&#8217;s tendency to manipulation, strategic thinking, disregard for ethical norms for the sake of achieving personal gain, and a reduced level of empathy. The term comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-personality-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}