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Your CEO Is Probably A Psychopath Your CEO Is Probably A Psychopath

09-06-2016 , 11:33 AM
http://thehustle.co/your-ceo-is-probably-a-psychopath

I took the "test," but I'm not telling my score. (Ha! Ha!)
09-06-2016 , 11:49 AM
Cool
09-06-2016 , 12:23 PM
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Your CEO Is Probably a Psychopath

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FACT: 4% of CEOs are psychopaths
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Good maths.
09-06-2016 , 12:31 PM
I guess I'm not a psychopath.... sociopath maybe...
09-06-2016 , 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by longmissedblind
I guess I'm not a psychopath.... sociopath maybe...
Same thing. Sociopathy is simply an American term for what everyone else calls psychopathy. Until the recent appearance of DSM-V, the American Medical Association was out of step with the rest of the world and took the view that psychopathy didn't exist, preferring 'anti-social personality disorder', which was defined mainly by criminal convictions and therefore tended to be applied to lower-class people and more particularly black people, whereas psychopathy is no respecter of class or race.

Professor Kevin Dutton, a research psychologist at Magdalen College, Oxford (and a bit of a dodgy customer, but I won't go into that right now) ran the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale questionnaire on his website and claims he found that the occupations with the highest-scoring psychopaths were, in order:--

1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (TV / Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Cleric
9. Chef
10. Civil servant

(Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Arrow 2013, p.173)

Last edited by 57 On Red; 09-06-2016 at 02:49 PM.
09-06-2016 , 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
Same thing. Sociopathy is simply an American term for what everyone else calls psychopathy. Until the recent appearance of DSM-V, the American Medical Association was out of step with the rest of the world and took the view that psychopathy didn't exist, preferring 'anti-social personality disorder'
Sociopath and psychopath are not quite the same thing. You can google "sociopath vs psychopath" and read countless articles on the subject.

The DSM never claimed that psychopathy didn't exist -- it just didn't define it as a mental illness.
09-08-2016 , 11:24 AM
Being a psychopath sounds like a lot of fun. At least the quiz made it sound that way.

      
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