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Conference 2014: Report
"Delegates heard about the psychological and biological effects of stress in triggering hubristic behaviour in leaders and possible ways to check its malign effects. Joy Ogden, freelance medical writer Progress...
How to spot a narcissist: Mental health literacy with respect to Narcissistic Personality Disorder. (2014)
"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...
The sound of power: Conveying and detecting hierarchical rank through voice. (2014)
“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...
Bad apples in the barrel: personality disorders at work. (2014)
"Personality Disorders ... are in no way a matter of mental health but only of behaviour, and therefore subject to management oversight and intervention. Dr Michael Reddy, Chartered Clinical and Occupational...
Exposing the hubris in knowing. (2014)
“…the most significant progress (comes from) intellectual humility that lets us accept that most of what we know will ... before long, become wrong.” Elizabeth Nable, President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor...
Call for research proposals. (2014)
The Daedalus Trust is offering enabling funding for innovative and interdisciplinary research into hubristic behaviour across many areas of human activity, particularly business. The deadline for proposals is 15 April 2014....
Trust makes £50,000 available for research. (2014)
Researchers in neuroscience, business and management and social sciences are being invited to apply for a share of £50,000 in enabling funding available now from the Daedalus Trust. Submissions are...
Interpersonal power: A review, critique, and research agenda. (2014)
“….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...
Short Cuts. (2014). Narcissism ensnares an awful lot of people in its sticky web.
"Narcissism may be a self-referential condition, but it ensnares an awful lot of people in its sticky web. David Runciman London Review of Books, 6 November 2014 Vol. 36 No....
CEO hubris as a ‘sell’ signal for investors. (2013)
"We could analyze the speech patterns of corporate and government leaders and measure whether they have stepped over the edge of narcissism and lost touch with the realities of their...