This study investigated the relationship between scores of college students (N = 210, 114 women, 95 men, 1 unidentified; M age = 19.3 yr., SD = 2.8) on Machiavellianism and their motives for communicating with their instructors in the classroom. Students' Machiavellianism scores were positively but weakly related to three motives of Functional (r = .22, p <.01), Excuse-making (r = .16, p <.05), and Sycophancy (r = .17, p <.05).
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