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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 10 2020, @01:30AM (4 children)
Three for three, wow. See, this is the surest sign you're a sociopath, that you seriously have no idea, not the smallest inkling, that the awful shit you say *is* awful.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:08AM (3 children)
You need to read up on the words "sociopath" and "empathy". Either you don't have a clue what they mean or you are so bad at empathy yourself that you may very well be one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:19AM (2 children)
Good Lord, don't even try that shit. You've shown what you are to all and sundry thousands of times and no one will buy that weak pisswater you're selling now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 11 2020, @02:55PM (1 child)
Clue: Empathy does not mean letting your decisions and actions be determined by what someone else feels. It also doesn't require or even suggest have that feeling echoed in you for you to feel as well or even that you give a shit what they feel in any way.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 11 2020, @04:11PM
Holy shit, the second sentence is the DEFINITION OF EMPATHY. Just being able to understand someone else's emotional state on an intellectual level is a necessary but insufficient prerequisite. Emotional intelligence is not empathy, it's just a component of it.
You don't know what words mean. And you refuse to learn then. Barbara Hudson is right, you've proven without a shadow of a doubt you're a psychopath when you say this specific thing. And further proof is that you don't even understand why this is a bad look. Fuck me, but you're a piece of work...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...