Revealed: The key signs your boss might be a PSYCHOPATH – so, does your manager have any of these traits?
Psychopaths exhibit different traits depending on their disorder.
Common symptoms include superficial charm, a grandiose idea of self-worth, the need for stimulation and impulsiveness, pathological lying, the ability to manipulate others, and a lack of remorse and empathy.
But despite the popular association, not all psychopaths become murderers.
Experts claim people usually find psychopaths intriguingbut can’t put my finger on why.
This is due to incongruous behavior, because psychopaths tend to act a lot to deceive mimic normal responseswhere their views and reactions sometimes change quickly.
For example, self-confessed psychopath Jacob Wells said that when he meets someone he tries to become “the most interesting person they know” and supposedly appropriate interests and responses to do so.
His reaction also betrays another common trait: a grandiose sense of self-worth, in that he can be the most interesting person in the room.
Psychopaths tend to act out occasionally unconvincing emotional responseswith mistakes, including the tone of your voice or body language.
This may be because they cannot understand emotions such as fear and love, but can mimic them.
Psychopaths exhibit different traits depending on their disorder, but common traits include superficial charm and the ability to manipulate others. Despite the popular association, not all psychopaths become murderers (stock image)
Generally, psychopaths’ “emotions” are superficial and short-lived, and there is a manipulative ulterior motive to displaying them.
For example, Mr. Wells said that he offers to do favors and tell false secrets to make people gain their full trust.
He also shows insincere charm – another trait associated with psychopaths.
He says, “I keep secrets and tell them fake secrets to further gain their trust, and once they trust me enough, I ask for favors, reminding them of the favors I have done them. I can literally get anything from them, and that’s incredibly helpful.”
Psychopaths typically exhibit a incredible ability to manipulate others and sometimes do it with pleasure.
Psychopaths often have an air of it superiority about them, perhaps reflected in Mr. Wells’ belief that he can spot other psychopaths
Even expert Dr. Hare, who created the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which is used as a diagnostic tool to determine where a person falls on the psychopathy spectrum, warns that anyone can become a psychopath during a brief interaction with cheated.