Papers

"High levels of the stress hormone cortisol may contribute to the risk aversion and 'irrational pessimism' found among bankers and fund managers during financial crises   Narayanan Kandasamy, Andrew S....

“CEO pay is negatively related to future stock returns…driven by… overconfidence that leads to losses from over investment and value-destroying M&A. Michael J. Cooper, University of Utah; Huseyin Gulen, Purdue...

"Provides an organized appraisal of managerial hubris using an original conceptual map and distills suggestions for managing hubris that may prove helpful to practitioners". Picone, P. M., Dagnino, G. B., & Minà, A.,...

"Schizophrenia and depression were ‘correctly’ identified significantly more than … NPD. This demonstrates that laypeople have difficulty identifying NPD. Kirstie Wright & Adrian Furnham, University College London, United Kingdom Personality...

“Holding power can fundamentally change the way you speak, altering basic acoustic properties of the voice. Listeners can pick up on these vocal cues to know who is really in...

“….only once we understand (how individuals gain power) can we predict who receives power and thus ensure that power is put to good use for organizations, collectives, and countries." Rachel...

"We explore why narcissists perform Counter-productive Work Behaviour and offer advice regarding what organizations can do to avoid it. We (also) discuss narcissism's relationship with leadership effectiveness, and propose the Narcissistic Leaders and...

"By tracking participants' brains,  the authors found that empathy for a colleague performing an action was high amongst ‘powerless’ people, but much lower amongst people who were ‘powerful’.   Jeremy...

"The connection between narcissism and leadership is well established.... The author argues that a single individual may at different times be both constructive and reactive   Mark Stein, School of Management, University...

“... the social influence of executive hubris is stronger in the Chinese context than in the US." Prof. J. Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Asst. Prof. A.P.Y Tang,...