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Why narcissists are unwilling to apologize: The role of empathy and guilt. (2017)
"...narcissists are unwilling to apologize for their transgressions, as they experience little empathy for their victims and lower guilt." Joost M. Leunissen, Nottingham Trent University, UK; Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut, University of Southampton, UK European Journal of Personality 20 June 2017 This research was completed with the support of the Daedalus Trust and has already has been previewed on...
Written by: Leunissen, J.M., Sedikides, C. & Wildschut, T.
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Is pride a vice or a virtue? A psychologist explains. (2017)
"Pride ... seems to be quite functional and exist to encourage people to engage in socially valued behaviours more likely to bind people together than to separate and divide." Neil Mclatchie, Lecturer in Psychology, Lancaster University The Conversation, 12 June 2017. "…(pride) usually has a recognisable physical expression – a slight smile, the head tilted back, the chest expanded, with arms raised or akimbo. "…Yet pride often ge...
Written by: Mclatchie, N.
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Narcissistic force meets systemic resistance: The energy clash model. (2017)
“…conceptualizes the impact of a narcissistic leader in three phases, and discusses six ways for harnessing the positive sides of narcissistic energy..” Constantine Sedikides, University of Southampton, UK; W. Keith Campbell, University of Georgia. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1-58. (May 2017). From the Abstract This article focuses ...
Written by: Sedikides, C., & Campbell, W. K.
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The acquisitive nature of extraverted CEOs. (2017)
“…extraverted CEOs are more likely to engage in acquisitions, and to conduct larger ones, than other CEOs..” Shavin Malhotra, University of Waterloo, Ontario; Taco H. Reus, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; PengCheng Zhu, University of San Diego; Erik M. Roelofsen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Administrative Science Quarterly, 0001839217712240. 24 <...
Written by: Malhotra, S.; Reus, T. H.; Zhu, P.; Roelofsen, E. M.
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Winner and loser effects in human competitions. Evidence from equally matched tennis players. (2017)
"...among men, the winner of a closely fought tie-break had an approximate 60% chance of winning the second set, the loser a 40% chance." Lionel Page, Queensland University of Technology Business School, Brisbane; John Coates, Dewline Research, UK. Evolution and Human Behavior 38 (2017) 530–535i In behaviour displaying the winner effect, an animal that has won a fight or a competition for territory is more likely to win...
Written by: Page, L. & Coates, J.
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Being the boss in Brussels, Boston and Beijing. (2017)
“The management approach that works in Lagos won’t be as effective in Stockholm.” Prof. Erin Meyer, INSEAD HBR July-Aug 2017 Image: Mark Boardman “Cultural differences in leadership styles often create unexpected misunderstandings. “Americans, for example, are used to thinking of the Japanese as hierarchical while considering themselves egalitarian. “Yet the Japanese find Americans confusing t...
Written by: Meyer, E.
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Testosterone makes men less likely to question their impulses. (2017)
... testosterone either inhibits the process of mentally checking your work or increases the intuitive feeling that 'I'm definitely right.' Emily Velasco (staff writer) Previewing work by researchers including Prof. Colin Camerer, CalTech. Caltech, 27 April 2017 A new study has demonstrated a “clear and robust causal effect of [testosterone] on human cognition and decision-making. Researchers - from Calt...
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Because it’s there: Risk, reality and the ‘Hubris Black Hole’. (2017)
It is easy to blame failed leaders of having suffered from hubris; but …their ‘crime’ is not bringing about the failure … but of not winning the goals we appointed them to achieve, and whose hubris is that?
Graham Robinson
Surrey Business School, University of Surrey and a member of the Daedalus Trust Advisory Group.
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“The lead piping came for the Tories, first on election night and, since then, in their slow, shocked and wholly inadequate reaction to the catastrophe at Grenfell Tower."
The Guardian (UK) Editorial, 16 June 2017
Photograph: Hannah Mckay/Reuters
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The Guardian view on arrogance: the Greeks had a word for it
“The original meaning of hubris went far beyond the pride that goes before a fall: it was a deliberate, excessive and brutal act. Remind you of any government?...<...