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2nd September 2018
08:23am BST

The group conducted two studies which showed that some psychopaths thrive under abusive supervisors.
In this case, an abusive supervisor is someone who is rude, invaded their employees' privacy, and spreads gossip.
It makes sense that majority of people find these kinds of bosses very stressful and not ideal indeed, but Dr Charlice Hurst said that psychopaths are actually pretty into it.
She wrote that there are two kinds of psychopaths - primary and secondary - and that both of them thrive beneath people who are abusive in the workplace.
She said:
"People who score high in primary psychopathy lack empathy and are cool-headed and fearless. They don’t react to things that cause other people to feel stressed, fearful or angry. "Secondary psychopaths are more hot-headed and impulsive. We found that primary psychopaths benefit under abusive supervisors. "Relative to their peers low in primary psychopathy, they felt less anger and more engagement and positive emotions under abusive supervisors."
Understandably, these finding aren't all that good news for companies.
After all, a workforce consisting of a lot of high-performing psychopaths wouldn't really get anyone anywhere.
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