The Mach IV test was administered to 206 undergraduate university students to compare business with nonbusiness students and to compare business students majoring in different fields, such as Marketing, Human Resource Management, and Accounting and Finance. Analysis partially supported the common stereotype that business students, and marketing students in particular, are more Machiavellian than are nonbusiness students.
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