The Happy Subclinical Psychopath: The Protective Role of Boldness in Successful Psychopathy

Du, Yan Yi Lance; Templer, Klaus J.

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“…Of these studies, four have focused on interactions within the dark triad. Du and Templer (2022) examined how boldness, that is, one specific aspect of psychopathy (see further), mitigated the negative effects of psychopathic meanness on job satisfaction. Kückelhaus and Blickle (2021) examined how different aspects of Machiavellianism interact with each other to predict occupational outcomes as emergent interpersonal syndromes.…”

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“…Next, the large majority of this study examined psychopathy facets of the triarchic model in relation to a broad range of objective and subjective work outcomes (Blickle et al, 2018; Du & Templer, 2022; Kranefeld & Blickle, 2022; Neo et al, 2018; Schütte et al, 2018; Sutton et al, 2020; Vergauwe et al, 2021). Although each of these studies yield a unique set of findings, one common thread is that boldness is often found to be associated with more positive work‐related outcomes, whereas disinhibition and especially meanness generally demonstrate negative effects on people's performance or, in the case of managers, subordinate performance.…”

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“…traits are potentially moderated by other traits. Of these studies, four have focused on interactions within the dark triad Du and Templer (2022). examined how boldness, that is, one specific aspect of psychopathy (see further), mitigated the negative effects of psychopathic meanness on job satisfaction.…”

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Understanding dark side personality at work: Distinguishing and reviewing nonlinear, interactive, differential, and reciprocal effects

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The topic of dark side personality at work has received considerable research attention over the past decade, and both qualitative and quantitative reviews of this field have already been published. To show the relevance of dark personality in the work context, existing reviews have typically focused on systematically discussing the different criteria that have been linked to dark traits (e.g., job performance, work attitudes, leadership emergence, etc.). In contrast, and complementing this earlier work, the current review paper summarizes the available literature on this topic by structuring it in terms of the nature of the relationships studied rather than in terms of the types of outcome variables. Doing so, the focus shifts from "What are the outcomes of dark traits?" to "How are dark traits related to work outcomes?" Scrutinizing the nature of these relationships, we specifically focus on four types of effects (i.e., nonlinear, interactive, differential, and reciprocal) that highlight the complexity of how dark side traits operate in the work context. Structured this way, this review first provides a conceptual underpinning of each of these complex effects, followed by a summary of the empirical literature published over the past 10 years. To conclude, we present an integration of this field, provide suggestions for future research, and highlight concrete assessment challenges.

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“…Since the beginning of the 20 th century, scientific research on psychopathy has amassed a considerable number of studies in the context of public safety and the justice system (DeLisi, 2019;Helfgott, 2018). However, it is in the business world that functional or subclinical psychopathy flourishes and is valued for hiring managers (Unrau & Morry, 2019;Du & Templer, 2021). The adjective "functional" seems suitable to define what kind of person we want to characterize.…”

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Fit to be unethical: functional psychopathy in organizations

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2023

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In this article, we carry out a theoretical analysis on how the person with characteristics similar to those of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) has the social skills to thrive in an individualistic and greedy society. We show that the ability to adopt unethical behaviors can be crucial for these people to appear as assertive, capable, and accomplishing professionals. They are not only able to achieve individual results but, above all, to lead teams aimed at achieving the ambitious goals of their organizations. Such individuals are known as functional psychopaths. From a psychological point of view, a large part of the indicators related to functional psychopathy seems to be associated with changes in the regulatory function that emotions play a part in the human decisionmaking process. Functional psychopathy represents a challenge for organizational managers and staff in human resources sections. Furthermore, the evaluation processes, primarily based on organizational results, are not very sensitive to differentiate between (1) lack of empathy and courage; (2) selfishness and zeal; and (3) manipulation and leadership. It can be concluded that only more sophisticated, laborious, and costly processes could be sensitive enough to identify those people and their perverse work strategies during the selective and evaluative processes in the business environment. So, they are all around us, and, given the cultural orientation of companies toward individualism and greed, they are probably here to stay.

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Understanding empathy deficits and emotion dysregulation in psychopathy: The mediating role of alexithymia

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Sahm,

Schmidt

et al. 2024

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Psychopathy is a severe personality disorder marked by a wide range of emotional deficits, including a lack of empathy, emotion dysregulation, and alexithymia. Previous research has largely examined these emotional impairments in isolation, ignoring their influence on each other. Thus, we examined the concurrent interrelationship between emotional impairments in psychopathy, with a particular focus on the mediating role of alexithymia. Using path analyses with cross-sectional data from a community sample (N = 315) and a forensic sample (N = 50), our results yielded a statistically significant mediating effect of alexithymia on the relationship between psychopathy and empathy (community and forensic) and between psychopathy and emotion dysregulation (community). Moreover, replacing psychopathy with its three dimensions (i.e., meanness, disinhibition, and boldness) in the community sample revealed that boldness may function as an adaptive trait, with lower levels of alexithymia counteracting deficits in empathy and emotion dysregulation. Overall, our findings indicate that psychopathic individuals’ limited understanding of their own emotions contributes to their lack of empathy and emotion dysregulation. This underscores the potential benefits of improving emotional awareness in the treatment of individuals with psychopathy.

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The Happy Subclinical Psychopath: The Protective Role of Boldness in Successful Psychopathy

Cited by 6 publications

References 85 publications

Understanding dark side personality at work: Distinguishing and reviewing nonlinear, interactive, differential, and reciprocal effects

Understanding dark side personality at work: Distinguishing and reviewing nonlinear, interactive, differential, and reciprocal effects

Fit to be unethical: functional psychopathy in organizations

Understanding empathy deficits and emotion dysregulation in psychopathy: The mediating role of alexithymia

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