Bad Is Stronger Than Good
By P. D. Harms. 2022
Abstract. Organizational scholars increasingly realize the importance of a dark personality in the workplace. Although a great deal has been learned in terms of the utility of dark personality for the prediction of workplace outcomes, the field has yet to consolidate in terms of which models and measures best reflect the nature of dark personality traits. To facilitate this discussion, the present review examines and evaluates both established and emergent models and measures of dark personality. Further, to inform future research, it also summarizes evidence concerning methodological issues that have been shown to impact levels of dark traits or to moderate their relationships with work outcomes. Finally, the paper considers the implications of widespread practices in the field of dark personality and makes recommendations for future theorizing, research practices, and implementation.
Subfields: Social Sciences & Humanities
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- Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design (2022, background): “Other related issues is the asymmetry between perception of costs and benefits, where Baumeister et al. (2001) find “bad [events] to be stronger than good in a disappointingly relent-less pattern," and that “bad events wear off more slowly than good events."”
- Presidential Address: Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance (2020, unknown): “On the other hand, psychologists have documented negativity bias (Rozin and Royzman (2001), Baumeister et al. (2001))—a general tendency to pay more attention to negative information and to interpret information negatively. An evolutionary justification for negativity bias is that missing a threat j”