Posts tagged with: Hubris
Conference 2012: Dr Ricardo Blaug video clip – How power corrupts
Blaug, Ricardo. "Hubris is a serious and recurrent problem associated with the processes by which individual, group and organisations simultaneously create meaning. Dr Ricardo Blaug, Reader in Democracy and Political Theory,...
The Hubris Hypothesis: You can self-enhance, but you’d better not show it. (2012)
"...participants disliked individuals who communicated self-superiority beliefs explicitly. Such self-superiority beliefs may not create the same reaction when disguised as non-comparative positive self-claims or self-improvement claims. Vera Hoorens and...
BAE Systems chiefs failed the hubris test. (2012)
"The collapsed attempt of Dick Olver and Ian King, chairman and CEO of BAE Systems, to merge with EADS is “another high-scorer on the hubris index”, writes Ruth Sunderland in...
A New Pharaoh and the Fiscal Cliff. (2012)
"Morsi has to realize for the sake of Egypt’s future that his own brain function is being distorted by the very measures he is introducing to impose “order” on the...
The psychology of the powerful. (2012)
"Human intelligence is made up of four different mental systems. None is infallible. You need a "jazz quartet of them" or the decision-making process can become unreliable and potentially dangerous. ...
Lord Owen: Hubris Syndrome and the need for research. (2012)
Further background to Hubris Syndrome and the Daedalus Trust, and the need for more research in the area. "We’ve now got acquired personality disorders. The question is can it affect...
Equitable Life CEO proposes MOT tests for bad bosses to spot hubris before it derails companies. (2012)
"No one would deny that chief executives have egos. In many, it is restrained and agreeable. In others, I see hubris. Self doubt, self criticism and open-mindedness don’t much feature....
Conference 2012: Prof Ghaemi – Political power and psychopathology
"Practical measures to fight hubris should focus on fostering self-doubt. Public intellectuals could better acknowledge that science is a ‘knowing ignorance’ - a ‘philosophical faith’ is one in which one...
Conference 2012: Guy Claxton – The emotional brain and decision making
"...presents hubris as a disorder of intelligence and, more specifically as a particular form of stupidity, representing a breakdown in what are normally regarded as self-regulating systems Professor Guy...
Conference 2012: Paul Fletcher – From intoxication to addiction: Neurobiological substrates for hubris?
"The transition from intoxication to addiction is associated with a preoccupation with the negative effects of withdrawal from the source of addiction (as opposed to the satisfaction of a perceived...