From Frontiers in Psychology- Prevalence of Psychopathy in the General Adult Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
The prevalence of psychopathy is significantly higher among workers in some organizations and companies (e.g., managers, executives, procurement and supply professionals, advertising workers) than among university students or people from the general community. In turn, the prevalence of psychopathy among university students is significantly higher than among people from the general community, although the latter result could be due to the type of career that university students are pursuing (e.g., company careers vs. helping careers).
The quote doesn’t adequately capture all the different avenues of the psychopaths they looked at its just a taste of it. And there’s some rather obvious categories they seem to have left out.
Working for a charming psychopath is awful. It’s also terrible for the organization. Nothing more destructive or harder to get rid of than a charming psychopath on your senior management team.
Someone could cut their brake lines.
You should work in HR.
Psychopaths are efficient at their jobs because they don’t let emotions get in the way, that’s either good or bad for everyone else.
Psychopathy is a sliding scale of empathy, everyone fits on that scale to some degree. The worst psychopaths have little to no empathy while “bleeding hearts” can be emotionally unbalanced dripping empathy out of every pore and ineffective at rational decisions.
“Normal” people have plenty of empathy for those closest to them and that empathy wanes and dilutes itself as their social circle widens to a point of no empathy for most people for a stranger living on the other side of the planet.
It’s not hard to figure out where you fit on the psychopathy scale if your honest about it……………
That is why globalism is an abomination.
Only psychopaths can manage Big Anything—any enterprise much bigger than a few dozen employees, never mind a national government or global corporation—and they will inevitably do so for their own narrow interest and profit.
It’s only a matter of time before you wind up with the global economy under the control of a few thousand of the planet’s most ruthless psychopaths, and anybody with a soul left to choose between submitting to slavery or becoming a “problem” to be “solved.”
Agree 100%!
Yup. I had to deal with that at Armpit College. My department administrators could pretty much do what they liked because they cultivated the right friendships and alliances.
While not perhaps directly related, it is certainly the action of psychopaths to destroy the value of money to further their own aims:
https://fee.org/articles/what-happened-in-1971-edward-snowden-and-jack-dorsey-want-to-know/
The charts comparing stagnant wages and soaring inflation needs another plot line. The chart needs to plot “high wage earners” over that time frame. I would argue that the upper middle class has (mostly) kept pace with inflation. Hence no hew and cry over that shocking graph.
In addition, the inflation has jacked up stock prices too. There is rising “income” buried in rising stock market value too.
And I think Jack Dorsey is doing just fine.
How about this? Parents incorrectly burning into their progeny’s psyche that they are “special” and “perfect” leading to lack of fear and leading to unearned high self-confidence and charisma. Behavior further encouraged by the lack of proper application of disciplinary structure on the individual such that any acting out is acceptable and entitled. In short, no consequences which would help present the concepts of sympathy and empathy onto the individual but would encourage narcissisms and unearned hierarchy.
My thesis is that psychopathy is a taught trait that is prevalent in all forms of society due to piss poor parenting and a too forgiving society where consequences are now of lesser….(smile) consequence.
And let me add that it starts in childhood infancy. I am watching my own daughter (raised right by me) do an outstanding job raising my 2yo grandson. She loves him to death in every way imaginable but she never “babies” him. She’ll ignore his whiney cries but rush to his real ones (yes, there’s an audible difference). She is feeding him an amazing array of foods … including fresh vegetables and salads, and yes plenty of yummy meats. She is training him in the “French method” … to eat everything, be polite, look everyone in the eye, and to be fearless.
It is already shocking to see photos and videos of my little guy on play dates and excursions with his group of peers. His friends are all clingy to their moms and hesitant to play with others. My grandkid is raring to go and gets “stuck in” in every way. He is having a ball … while his friends appear overwhelmed by it all. I can literally predict his friends futures now … bleak.
https://www.romper.com/p/french-style-parenting-vs-american-parenting-whats-the-difference-10680
Every young person I know who is fucked in the head and barely literate is taking psychology.
Hmmm.
Used to be basket weaving.
Underwater basket weaving and interpretive dance are still popular electives.
I dated a psychologist once….ONCE. We were walking down South Street in Philly (restaurants and shop area)…and out of the blue she screamed at the top of her lungs. I was startled and started looking around to try and determine what had just happened. Everyone was staring and frantic looking at her and the area around us for the cause of such an outburst.
Finally, she smiled and said (trying to quote this perfectly)… “Sometimes I do that to get rid of the excess tension.”
I think you are right. I vast majority enter that field because they are the most prominent amongst it’s benefactors.
“fucked in the head and barely literate is taking psychology.”
A PhD student in psychology said his prof told him he was crazy. He said, “Thank you.” He said that every psychologist is crazy.
When I was an undergrad, arts was the go-to discipline if one washed out of just about everything else. A lot of artsies I knew studied psychology. That way, they could graduate and get their degrees and some letters behind their names.
Thanks for proving water runs downhill. Now do pedophilia.
The rest of us are well aware that psychopaths and pedophiles control the world, and that explains everything that’s wrong with it.
They used to call it “evil” in the old days.
…Grade 8, 1967…teacher told us what our Future would be. Out of 25 people, 5 would be extremely mentally troubled. 5 would be moderately troubled. 10 would certainly experience issues. Only 5 would wind up with happy, relatively untroubled lives. After he said that, we started pointing our fingers at all our buddies and laughing…
Narcissists can be worse. They don’t have a conscience, and they will cry like little bitches if you call them out on a lie. And they will get you back a thousand times over for it. It’s easy to take the treacherous pussies completely apart if you know what makes them tick. Pure psychopaths are much more solid and dangerous.
For psychos it’s always the quiet ones.
good description of the little potato , prince selfie sox of blackface, though he lies enough to be a psychopath.
Dear Leader is both: a narcissistic psychopath.
Frontiers is a pay to play predatory Chinese scientific journal. Lots of rubbish gets published there. Like MDPI. Take anything from china with a grain of salt.
Psychopaths? They can lie and be more convincing than normal people telling the truth.
B.F. Skinner was the chief psychologist thinker when I was young. I thought he was B.S. but the last two years have shown his concepts of reinforcement are the Government’s chosen method. No surprize in that but I thought I’d escape the apocalypse of a boot in my face.
It seems to me that the author names everyone he used to work with that he didn’t like or was jealous of managers, executives, procurement and supply professionals, advertising workers . Oh didums, did they all pick on you?
Robert, I sold stuff, ran a couple of companies and managed people in one way or another all my working life. Jesus, I didn’t know I was a psychopath, should I apologize to someone?