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   TayFoNay🍿 (tayfonay@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 00:18:30 JST TayFoNay🍿

   TIL about the "CEO Dark Personality"

   Like medicine, psychology is broken up into sub-disciplines. In the corporate world, "industrial organizational" theory is the prevailing thing. This is different than my world, clinical psychology, which focuses on diagnosing and treating mental illness. My field has a lot of fucking problems to say the least. But what are we doing over in I/O?

   In I/O, they don't diagnose people with things, and they rely on different testing to get various "personality" profiles to help people with their professional development and improve workplace...stuff. I went poking around in the I/O literature and came across the term "CEO Dark Personality" which consists of a collection of traits like psychopathy/sociopathy, narcissism, and machiavellianism, sadism, and hubris. It's not a clinical diagnosis because I/O isn't in the business to diagnose.

   Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of the research is paywalled and I no longer have my academic library card. I'm not sure what to think that there are enough studies on this to warrant systematic reviews. Like hey, we've identified this trend of these certain shitty human qualities that are more prevalent amongst these upper management types. That's great. But how do we get this research to translate into any meaningful change when they're all in charge of...everything?

   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886922004561

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     Local Agency (laprice@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 00:18:26 JST Local Agency

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     • Kierkegaanks regretfully

     @tayfonay @Kierkegaanks the real research that needs to happen is figuring out why the rest of us let sociopaths gain and retain organizational power.

     And are there organizations that are resistant to being subverted into the personal playthings of the CEO type? And if so; what makes them different?

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     TayFoNay🍿 (tayfonay@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 00:18:28 JST TayFoNay🍿

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     • Kierkegaanks regretfully

     @Kierkegaanks yeah, moving away from diagnostic labels. But it's the same story.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Kierkegaanks regretfully (kierkegaanks@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 00:18:29 JST Kierkegaanks regretfully

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     @tayfonay Sounds like a repackaging of the old established findings of antisocial traits in high executives?