Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

By P. Babiak, Robert D. Hare. 2015

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Do Bad Guys Get Ahead or Fall Behind? Relationships of the Dark Triad of Personality With Objective and Subjective Career Success (2016, background): “For instance, people high in psychopathy may use extroverted charm to convey charisma or may fit well with some workplace demands in leadership positions (Babiak & Hare, 2006; Wille, De Fruyt, & De Clercq, 2013).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “…mistrust of and by others, uncooperativeness, disloyalty, cynicism, exploitativeness, greater likelihood for occurring in men, and affinity to psychopathy and narcissism (e.g., Babiak & Hare, 2006; Baron-Cohen, 2011; Repacholi et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 1996; Wilson, Near, & Miller, 1998).”
Greed is good? Assessing the relationship between entrepreneurship and subclinical psychopathy (2013, background): “For instance, Babiak and Hare (2007) suggest that many ‘successful’ psychopaths, that is, individuals who are able to manipulate, extort, and abuse others – without being found out (Mullins-Swe-”
The dark side of personality at work (2014, background): “Psychopathy has been described as impulsivity and thrill seeking combined with low empathy and anxiety (Babiak & Hare, 2006; Hare, 1985; Skeem, Polaschek, Patrick, & Lilienfeld, 2011).”
Leaders’ Personal Wisdom and Leader–Member Exchange Quality: The Role of Individualized Consideration (2014, background): “In fact, narcissistic charismatic leaders, despite their initial appeal, in the long term may turn out to be what Boddy, Hare and colleagues have called ‘‘corporate psychopaths’’ (Babiak and Hare 2007; Boddy 2011; Boddy et al. 2010).”
Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: Capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths (2015, background): “Similarly, Clarke and other psychology researchers describe corporate psychopaths as typically recognized as toxic leaders by their followers but not by their superiors (Boddy, 2011c; Boddy, et al., 2010b; Babiak, 1995; Babiak and Hare, 2006; Clarke, 2005, 2007).”
The Dark Triad and Nascent Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Unproductive versus Productive Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “These individuals consider life from the perspective of every man for himself, viewing people as either prey or fellow predators (Babiak and Hare 2006).”
Maladaptive Personality at Work: Exploring the Darkness (2014, background): “…Triad traits are more relevant to the work place, and indeed some researchers have focused on the impact of a single element of the Dark Triad, for example psychoticism (Babiak & Hare, 2006) or narcissism (Campbell, Hoffman, Campbell, & Marchiso, 2011; Resick, Whitman, Weingarden, & Hiller, 2009).”
Successful Psychopathy (2015, background): “Echoing Hare, several authors have conjectured that psychopathic individuals are overrepresented in certain vocations, including politics, business, military combat, law enforcement, firefighting, and risky sports (Babiak & Hare, 2006; Fowles & Dindo, 2006; Stevens, Deuling, & Armenakis, 2012).”