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The Jobs With The Most Psychopaths
AOL Jobs ^ | January 2, 2013 | Dan Fastenberg

Posted on 01/09/2013 9:50:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Have you ever experienced the feeling at work that everyone around you is unstable? That you're the only level-headed worker in a workplace populated by colleagues whose fits and outbursts are unpredictable, or even psychopathic?

The experience might be common to many workers, but according to a recent book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, certain fields are more likely to attract actual psychopaths than others. The book by Oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton argues that "a number of psychopathic attributes [are] actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals -- attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus."

In a post about the book, author and Huffington Post blogger Eric Barker says that professions with high rates of psychopaths "offer power and many require an ability to make objective, clinical decisions divorced from feelings." Conversely, those fields with relatively few psychopaths "require human connection, dealing with feelings and most of them don't offer much power."

So what were the kinds of jobs most likely to attract psychopaths, and those least likely?

Highest Rates of Psychopathy:

1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police Officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil Servant...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: anotherstudy; junkscience; pseudoscience; psychology; top10; touchyfeely; workplace
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To: Baynative
How can the list not include politicians?

They are on the top of the list of narcissists.

21 posted on 01/09/2013 10:11:22 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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22 posted on 01/09/2013 10:11:40 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve filled 4 of the 10 positions....

The little voices in my head are really angry at you for posting this!!!!


23 posted on 01/09/2013 10:12:08 AM PST by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Disagree ‘care aide’ or nurse’s aide should be #1.
My mom is an RN and she says she’s met a large number of nurse’s aides who seem unbalanced/lacking in principles.
She says she has met very few nurses that are not decent people.
Aides are not screened as well as nurses, either.


24 posted on 01/09/2013 10:12:20 AM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Civil Servant” isn’t a job: the term simply identifies the employer. The employee could be anything from a typist to an astronaut (speaking of psychopaths ...).


25 posted on 01/09/2013 10:15:47 AM PST by Tax-chick (Please explain how my being in a fuss would help the situation.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

It said low levels not none at all. Many people with this recognize the issue and consciously do things to counteract those tendencies ( very crafty ).


26 posted on 01/09/2013 10:17:38 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: nevergore; 2ndDivisionVet

Another academic trying to undermine your confidence in reality.


27 posted on 01/09/2013 10:18:23 AM PST by Zeneta (Why are so many people searching for something that has already found us ?)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Based on the food network, chefs should be number 1.


28 posted on 01/09/2013 10:20:48 AM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; a fool in paradise

What about psychopathologists?! Sheesh!


29 posted on 01/09/2013 10:21:20 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Mastador1

Politicians are mostly lawyers.


30 posted on 01/09/2013 10:25:40 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Based on my experience in kitchens across the world, I would have guessed 4 or 5 at least. Maybe it's the burnout/death rate keeping the numbers down. ;)

/johnny

31 posted on 01/09/2013 10:26:46 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Gordon Ramsey alone should place it higher!


32 posted on 01/09/2013 10:28:30 AM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Raycpa

“Santa Claus would be top of list. Naughty/nice list, children in fear,-talk about power.”

Not to mention he sees you when you’re sleeping and he knows when you’re awake. Pretty creepy when you think about it...


33 posted on 01/09/2013 10:29:09 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some cultures are destined to remain stupid and we need to quit trying to uplift them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. Current president
2. presidential Czars
3. (a tie for third) politicians, asshat moonbat LIBs, DIMs and uninformed voters


34 posted on 01/09/2013 10:29:31 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“CEO’s are all Psychopaths” just fits the current media/Leftist template too conveniently.


35 posted on 01/09/2013 10:29:59 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Zeneta
"Another academic trying to undermine your confidence in reality. "

I now live under Obama rule....

I have no confidence in my reality....

36 posted on 01/09/2013 10:30:31 AM PST by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: nevergore

I can attest to psychos in TV/media. At the PBS station I worked at for a number of years, they were in key positions and protected. All they did was to come up with asinine rules and cry like little children (literally).


37 posted on 01/09/2013 10:32:47 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: nevergore

John 8:32

New International Version (NIV)

32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”


38 posted on 01/09/2013 10:34:04 AM PST by Zeneta (Why are so many people searching for something that has already found us ?)
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To: freedomlover
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LOLOLOLOL!!! {^)

Excellent!

39 posted on 01/09/2013 10:36:39 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Politicians are mostly lawyers.

When lawyer-hunting is legal, a bonus side-effect is that for every three lawyers you bag, you're bound to get one politician, on average.

40 posted on 01/09/2013 10:38:11 AM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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