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Empirical evidence that nice people don't always finish last:
Think your boss is a jerk? Wonder why the management of your organization consists of sociopaths? Some academic researchers suspect you're not alone, and they start their new paper with the statement, "We suffer no shortage of jerks in power." And they go on to ask the obvious question raised by this fact: "Does being a jerk help people attain power?"
To find out, the researchers set up a very long-term experiment. After administering personality surveys to undergrad and MBA students, they waited over a decade to follow up and find out which personality types had accrued power in the world of employment. The results suggest that jerks don't necessarily get ahead at work; instead, some of the consequences of being unpleasant offset the benefits that it might otherwise provide.
[...] The good news here is that, as the researchers put it, "individuals who were more selfish, combative, and deceitful did not, subsequently, attain higher power." So, nice people do not necessarily finish last. But, at the same time, nobody seems to be held back by displaying that list of behaviors on the job.
Journal Reference:
Cameron Anderson, Daron L. Sharps, Christopher J. Soto, et al. People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work [$], Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005088117)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @03:42AM (9 children)
The editors really need to explain why a bad faith user like you has privileges to see hashed IPs of posters. Do the editors not respect the privacy of everyone else on this site? Your bad behavior shouldn't be rewarded with admin privileges.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 03 2020, @04:56PM
"Bad faith?" You have some balls to accuse me of that, especially compared to people like Runaway and Entropy. Screw you sideways; I am one of the few posters who is only and always just herself and doesn't spam AC bullshit like a few people I could name.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Bot on Friday September 04 2020, @10:43AM (6 children)
AFAIK she is an editor. Lefties always trying to infiltrate orgs you know :D
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 05 2020, @05:23PM (5 children)
She's in training to be an editor but without any special powers at all on the production servers at this point. We don't care who pushes stories as long as they can keep their biases out of their work and don't bring unnecessary drama into the team. Which is to say, the staff are extremely varied in our views but we're adult enough to work together just fine. If you're the only one who can't, the problem is you not whoever you're complaining about.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday September 05 2020, @10:39PM (4 children)
wew! some usual picking on Azuma, ending with a :D no less, and poof TMB appears in a cloud of dusty wrath!
I guess a love story is in the making ;D <---- this is called an emoticon [wikipedia.org] <---- click on the underlined stuff
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday September 06 2020, @12:45AM (1 child)
Wrath? Dude. That was just me stating facts. I don't have any particular feelings about them one way or the other.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday September 07 2020, @08:31AM
Meatbags are so cute, they all deny having a crush.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 07 2020, @12:16AM (1 child)
Kiss the entire four-volume compendium of my ass, starting and ending with the appendix :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday September 07 2020, @08:32AM
Aha, so it's reciprocated. Can we have the wedding ceremony livestreamed in the first page? all you need is jitsi and a video tag, TMB.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 05 2020, @04:34PM
I'm pretty sure she's lying about being able to see it. She has editor seclev only on the dev server. I checked when I replied above.
Azuma: By all means though, correct me if I'm wrong and post the first five characters of the ipid for the posts in question.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.