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Research Café 1 (2011) – Prof Nick Bouras’ closing remarks
Prof Nick Bouras provides closing remarks for Research Café 1. "We have identified a number of themes which we would like to pursue … and through our Research Advisory Group we’ll work up more." Daedalus Trust and Brain Mind Forum Research Café held 7 October 2011, Magdalen College, Oxford. (Thank yous..) “We have identified a number of themes which we would like to pursue … and through our Research Advisory Group we’ll work up...
Written by: Bouras, Nick.
ViewThe corporate psychopaths theory of the global financial crisis. (2011)
"psychopaths in corporations … had a major part in causing the crisis. Their rise has been facilitated by changes in the way people are employed, particularly in the last third of the twentieth century." Clive R. Boddy, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Behaviour, Middlesex University Journal of Business Ethics, 102(2), 255-259 The Global Financial Crisis raised many questions about who was responsible. Once-gre...
Written by: Boddy, Clive R.
Read moreExecutive personality, capability cues, and risk taking: how narcissistic CEOs react to their successes and stumbles. (2011)
"research into responses to objective performance vs social praise... provides new insights about the antecedents of executives’ confidence." Arijit Chatterjee, assistant professor, Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), Singapore Donald C. Hambrick, professor, Pennsylvania State University Administrative Science Quarterly, 56:202 2011 “We found partial evidence that high...
Written by: Chatterjee, A. & Hambrick, Donald C.
Read moreResearch Café 1 – overview. 2011. In conjunction with the Brain Mind Forum
The Daedalus Trust hosted its first Research Café on October 7th 2011 at Magdalen College in collaboration with the Brain Mind Forum. The purpose of the event was to bring together an interdisciplinary group The Daedalus Trust in collaboration with the Brain Mind Forum 7 October 2011, Magdalen College, Oxford The Daedalus Trust hosted its first Research Café on October 7th 2011 at Magdalen ...
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Read moreShare traders more reckless than psychopaths, study shows. (2011)
"What makes individual stockbrokers blow billions in financial markets with criminal trading schemes? It may be because share traders behave more recklessly and are more manipulative than psychopaths. Spiegel staff, Spiegel Online International, 26 September 2011. What makes individual stockbrokers blow billions in financial markets with criminal trading schemes? According to a new study conducted at a Swiss uni...
Written by: Spiegel writers.
Read moreNarcissistic personality disorder: a clinical perspective. (2011)
"This article highlights some of the seemingly incompatible clinical presentations of narcissistic traits and NPD, especially as they co-occur with depressivity and perfectionism, and it discusses implications for building a treatment alliance with a patient Elsa Ronningstam PhD Journal of Psychiatric Practice, March 2011 Narcissistic traits and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) present specific diagnostic...
Written by: Ronningstam, Elsa.
Read morePsychiatry and politicians: the ‘hubris syndrome’. (2011)
"Lord Owen has provided psychiatrists and other physicians with useful guidance on how to recognise the appearance of hubris syndrome in persons who hold positions of power. He has also provided advice to doctors caring for such persons. Gerald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Priory Hospital Hayes Grove, Hayes, Kent. The Psy...
Written by: Russell, Gerald.
Read moreProf Paul Fletcher (2011): directions for neuroscientific research
The challenge now is to begin to understand how lower level mental processes manifest themselves in higher order decisions and behaviour, particularly sub-optimal behaviours Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. He is interviewed here before the start of the Daedalus Trust /Brain Mind Forum Research Café held 7 October 2011, Magdalen College, Oxford "In neuroscience we’ve experienced an explosi...
Written by: Fletcher, Paul.
ViewEffects of expectation on placebo-induced dopamine release in Parkinson disease. (Aug 2010)
"The anticipation of therapeutic benefit in response to placebo administration has been likened to the expectation of reward, particularly in patients with a chronic debilitating illness who have already experienced symptom relief from frequent doses of medication or other interventions. Sarah C. Lidstone, PhD; Michael Schulzer, MD, PhD; Katherine Dinelle, MSc; Edwin Mak, BSc; Vesna Sossi, PhD; Thomas J. Ruth, PhD; Raul de la Fue...
Written by: Lidstone, Schulzer, Dinelle et al.
Read moreResearch on power teaches why Blagojevich did what he did (…and why he might get away with It). (2010)
"The powerful often egregiously overstep sacred bounds of public and private trust, only to be consistently forgiven. This "power tango" is driven by a unique brew of intoxication. Adam Galinsky, Huffington Post, 23 August 2010 In December 9, 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested on federal corruption charges. On August 17, 2010, a hung jury failed to convict him on all but one of the 24 allegatio...
Written by: Galinsky, Adam.
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