Machiavelli’s Psychology of Power: Female Nature, Self-Interest and Dark Psychology

What “Female Nature” Really Reveals

Shout-out to Dominor — a power-psychology and philosophy hub with thousands of subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views across its videos. Their recent video, “Machiavelli's Brutal Truth About Female Nature (Never Published)”, passed 270,000 views soon after its release on November 14, 2025. It is not cheap clickbait. It is a tightly structured lecture in behavioral psychology disguised as a YouTube video.

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Machiavelli's Brutal Truth About Female Nature (Never Published)

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What Dominor Gets Right About Machiavelli

In 1513, an exiled Florentine diplomat named Niccolò Machiavelli wrote something so honest about human nature that his own name became shorthand for evil. Not because he invented cruelty, but because he described self-interest with surgical precision.

Dominor strips away the pop-culture caricature of Machiavelli and puts him back where he belongs: in the lineage of hard-headed psychologists of power. Under pressure — in politics, war, and personal relationships — people do not behave according to their highest ideals. They behave according to incentives.

The video walks through one of Machiavelli’s most uncomfortable observations: that loyalty is conditional. People are loyal only so long as it suits their interests. When the cost of loyalty outweighs the benefit, affection evaporates. That is not misanthropy; it is pattern recognition.

From a behavioral-psychology standpoint, what Dominor is really unpacking is this:

• Human attachment is contingent on perceived value.
• Self-interest quietly calibrates loyalty, even when people believe they are acting from pure love.
• We are all resistant to this idea, and that resistance is exactly what keeps the pattern powerful.

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“Female Nature” or Human Nature?

The title leans on the phrase “female nature” because the internet runs on sharp hooks, but the argument itself is not about women. It is about human beings under the influence of desire, fear and status.

Machiavelli’s point, as interpreted here, is simple and ruthless:

• People stay where the perceived benefits are high and the costs are low.
• When benefits shrink or better options appear, attachment is renegotiated.
• This is as true in romantic relationships as it is in politics and business.

From a behavioral-psychology lens, Dominor is describing a consistent mechanism you can test in your own life:

1. Reward structure. Every relationship rests on an exchange: emotional support, security, status, excitement, money, or meaning. Take away the perceived reward and watch the bond weaken.
2. Loss aversion and exit. When staying costs more than leaving — in dignity, safety, opportunity, or effort — people pivot. They justify the exit after the fact with stories about “falling out of love,” but the cost–benefit calculation has already run.
3. Gendered scripts over shared circuitry. Much of what we label “female psychology” or “male psychology” is simply shared human self-interest filtered through different social scripts. The core wiring is similar; the performance looks different.

The important move is not to pathologise women or men. It is to recognise that everyone around you is running an unconscious set of economic and emotional equations, including you.

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Power Psychology in Everyday Relationships

Where the video shines is in translating Renaissance power politics into modern attachment dynamics.

Three mechanisms stand out.

1. People stay for benefits, not history

Your partner, friends and colleagues do not remain in your life because of how long they have known you. They stay because, on balance, their life is better with you in it. When the provision changes — your emotional presence, your income, your social network, your stability — the relationship quietly recalibrates.

2. Boundaries are enforced, not announced

Machiavelli’s famous preference for being “feared rather than loved” is not a call to cruelty. Psychologically, it is an observation: people respect consequences more reliably than they respect feelings.

Translated into relational terms, if poor treatment of you carries no cost, you should expect that treatment to escalate. If violating your boundaries means losing access to you, behaviour changes quickly or the person leaves. Either outcome clarifies the relationship.

3. Attraction depends on strategic distance

Total availability may feel romantic, but in power terms it is catastrophic. The more someone erases their own life to orbit another person, the faster their perceived value drops.

Dominor frames this as an application of Machiavellian distance: independence and a degree of mystery are not “games.” They are structural conditions for sustained desire and respect. When you collapse your identity into another person’s, you stop being a choice and start being a utility.

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Why This Matters for Creators and Entrepreneurs

If you read Self Evidence regularly, you already know Miss Referee’s stance: marketing, money and influence are built on psychology, not on motivational quotes.

That is why this video sits comfortably beside posts like “Miss Referee on Online Business Success — The Power of Attitude” . It is the same argument in a darker mirror:

• In commerce, people buy when the perceived value exceeds the cost.
• In relationships, people stay when the emotional, social or practical return justifies the investment.

Dominor’s work lives at the intersection of:

• Power psychology and dark psychology
• Behavioral economics and game theory
• Attachment theory and status dynamics
• Classic philosophy (Machiavelli, Jung, Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius)

For creators, that translates into a few hard questions:

• What value are you actually providing, not what you hope you are providing?
• Are you setting boundaries with your audience, clients or collaborators, or training them to ignore your limits?
• Are you maintaining intellectual and creative independence, or collapsing your identity into external validation and algorithms?

If you want an elegant counterbalance — a reminder of how beauty, discipline and storytelling can rewire attention in a positive way — revisit “Creator Spotlight: Polina Kulakova — The Physics of Grace (Tribute by Sienna)” . One video engineers awe. The other engineers awareness. Both are about control of perception.

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The Future of Power Content: Auto-Dubbed Minds

YouTube’s automatic dubbing feature quietly changes the reach of channels like Dominor. When a video on Machiavellian psychology can be auto-dubbed into multiple languages, you are no longer dealing with a niche lecture. You are dealing with a portable meme about human nature.

For psychology and philosophy creators, that means:

• A single, well-structured idea can cross borders without recreating the content from scratch.
• “Dark psychology” education becomes globally scalable, for better or worse.
• The ethical responsibility grows with the reach: you are not just explaining influence; you are handing out maps.

In that sense, Dominor is doing something important: treating power literacy as a skill, not a seduction trick. The video argues, in essence, that understanding self-interest is how you avoid naïve victimhood — in love, in business, in politics.

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Watch This If

Watch “Machiavelli's Brutal Truth About Female Nature (Never Published)” if any of these apply:

• You have been blindsided by a breakup or a friendship that simply dissolved.
• You want a clear explanation of why “unconditional loyalty” so often fails in practice.
• You are building an online brand and need to understand how power, emotion and perception fit together.
• You are curious how a 500-year-old political handbook became a modern guidebook for boundary-setting and self-respect.

Think of it as power literacy for civilians: less romantic, more accurate, and far more useful.

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Related reads from Self Evidence

• Miss Referee on Online Business Success — The Power of Attitude
• Creator Spotlight: Polina Kulakova — The Physics of Grace (Tribute by Sienna)

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