Although UD loves this headline, it made her laugh, it’s fun fun fun, she can already see its inclusion in Occupy Wall Street’s Statement of Principles — she feels bound to remind herself, and you, her reader, of what psychological studies are worth these days.
In recent years, psychologists have reported a raft of findings on race biases, brain imaging and even extrasensory perception that have not stood up to scrutiny.
… In a survey of more than 2,000 American psychologists scheduled to be published this year, Leslie John of Harvard Business School and two colleagues found that 70 percent had acknowledged, anonymously, to cutting some corners in reporting data. About a third said they had reported an unexpected finding as predicted from the start, and about 1 percent admitted to falsifying data.
I’m just telling you this so that when in fact only one out of every thirty Wall Street employees turns out to be a psychopath you won’t be disappointed.
March 4th, 2012 at 1:39PM
Wonder what % of employees in other professions are “psychopaths,” according to the same criteria used?
March 4th, 2012 at 3:21PM
david: I had the same thought. Professors?
March 4th, 2012 at 7:45PM
The real question is how many psychologists are psychopaths.
March 4th, 2012 at 8:56PM
Actually, there was an article about that years ago… I’ll try to think of where I saw it. It argued that many people become psychologists because they themselves are deeply disturbed…
March 4th, 2012 at 11:07PM
I was a psych minor many decades ago and one of my psych profs used to say that.