Machiavellianism Scale - Mach IV (Version 1)
“When you ask someone to do something for you, it is best to give the real reasons for wanting it rather than giving reasons which carry more weight. (R)”
when you ask someone to do something for you it is best to give the real reasons for wanting it rather than giving reasons which carry more…
CITM_a0ecc3452480 · 2 source instruments · 1 surface variant
Normalized stem
when you ask someone to do something for you it is best to give the real reasons for wanting it rather than giving reasons which carry more weight r
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
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Surface variants
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- When you ask someone to do something for you, it is best to give the real reasons for wanting it rather than giving reasons which carry more weight. (R)
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Machiavellianism Scale (Mach IV)
“When you ask someone to do something for you, it is best to give the real reasons for wanting it rather than giving reasons which carry more weight. (R)”
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