• Fearless Dominance: Just One of Many Traits U.S. Presidents Share With Psychopaths
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[QUOTE]Call it swagger, cojones or just plain nerve, but there’s a certain kind of confidence required to run for the highest office in the land. It’s pretty bold to think that you and you alone are best equipped to lead this country, and that you can convince everyone to agree with that assessment. But that confidence could also be helpful in a time of crisis, according to a new study. A psychological trait called “fearless dominance” is common among our nation’s past leaders. You know who else shares this trait? Psychopaths. A new study suggests that some personality traits that would be maladaptive and psychopathic in most people could be beneficial in others — like our commanders-in-chief. “Fearless Dominance, which reflects the boldness associated with psychopathy, was associated with better rated presidential performance, leadership, persuasiveness, crisis management, Congressional relations, and allied variables,” the study authors write. Psychologists at Emory University psychoanalyzed the 42 past presidents through George W. Bush and ranked them according to his level of “fearless dominance.” No. 1 is Theodore Roosevelt. He’s followed by John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Zachary Taylor, Bill Clinton, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson and George W. Bush. It’s not that all presidents are psychopaths — it’s that psychopathic traits are not always bad, the study suggests. “Fearless dominance, for example, may contribute to reckless criminality and violence, or to skillful leadership in the face of a crisis,” said lead author Scott Lilienfeld, a psychologist at Emory. To come up with the dominance ranking, the authors relied on personality assessments in a book called “Personality, Character and Leadership in the White House.” Those assessments were developed by scholars and journalists — more than 100 experts in all — who used standardized psychological measures of personality, intelligence and behavior, according to an Emory news release. Then the study examined how these presidential personalities correlated to the presidents’ experiences and job performance. For that measurement, the study looked at two surveys of presidential historians, one from 2009 and one from 2010. There was a linear correlation between the fearless dominance of a president and his political performance, according to the study. Teddy Roosevelt was indeed pretty fearless — the guy once explored an uncharted Amazonian tributary, for crying out loud — and he certainly had a large, bullish personality. Lyndon Johnson was famously dominant, staring down his opponents and close-talking them so much that they literally bent over backward. And so on. It’s important to note that psychopathology is a “constellation” of traits, so fearless dominance alone does not a psychopath make. But the findings suggest more research is needed into the implications of boldness in leaders — and what that boldness can mean. The study appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/fearless-dominance-just-one-many-traits-us-presidents-share-psychopaths[/url]
I guess Bush was crazy in more ways than one
Too bad Romney doesn't have this trait. No wonder why they call him Mitt the Twit.
Welp yeah, leaders kind of have to be dominant personalities otherwise nobody would listen to them. [editline]16th September 2012[/editline] Teddy was a straight up badass btw, this dude boxed, wrestled and was one of the first american Judo students.
sociopaths also possess a blunt charm, that doesn't mean everyone who's charming and eccentric is a serial killer.
[QUOTE=Cone;37686697]sociopaths also possess a blunt charm, that doesn't mean everyone who's charming and eccentric is a serial killer.[/QUOTE] i can confirm my charms come from a long line of sociopaths
I find it hard to believe that Jackson is so high on the list. He should be at least #3.
I'm surprised Lyndon B. Johnson isn't on the list, the man was a dominating brute, and opposing parties knew better than to get him crossed.
[QUOTE=mac338;37688342]I'm surprised Lyndon B. Johnson isn't on the list, the man was a dominating brute, and opposing parties knew better than to get him crossed.[/QUOTE] He was physically dominating, for sure, but may not have been psychologically dominating which is what the article discusses.
teddy roosavelt was badass he was badass enough to live off of willpower(till he lost it and died anyways)
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;37689992]teddy roosavelt was badass he was badass enough to live off of willpower(till he lost it and died anyways)[/QUOTE] "Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight." I still like to think that he got tired of life's bullshit so he beat it up
I thought this was pretty standard knowledge. Most people who are in higher places (managers as opposed to sales assistants ect) often share psychopathic traits. Certain types of people are better at certain types of tasks. It's just obvious
[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;37690502]I thought this was pretty standard knowledge. Most people who are in higher places (managers as opposed to sales assistants ect) often share psychopathic traits. Certain types of people are better at certain types of tasks. It's just obvious[/QUOTE] something that's obvious still needs to be authenticated
[QUOTE=TaniaTiger;37690502]I thought this was pretty standard knowledge. Most people who are in higher places (managers as opposed to sales assistants ect) often share psychopathic traits. Certain types of people are better at certain types of tasks. It's just obvious[/QUOTE] Narcissism is also pretty useful for being a leader, the unnatural degree of ambition tends to make for a driven and aggressive leader. of course, they're never really concerned for leading as much as it is that leading just comes as a natural requirement of getting what they want, but it's usually still pretty useful.
Yet another example of how Western Civilization again fails to comprehend that elected leaders should be chosen for managerial merit and intelligence in relative fields as opposed to being a brute in plebian clothing.
[QUOTE=DanRatherman;37695360]Yet another example of how Western Civilization again fails to comprehend that elected leaders should be chosen for managerial merit and intelligence in relative fields as opposed to being a brute in plebian clothing.[/QUOTE] We're getting by so far.
You'd have to be batshit insane to want to run this asscrack of a country.
[quote] A psychological trait called “fearless dominance” is common among our nation’s past leaders. You know who else shares this trait? Psychopaths.[/quote] presidents are really confident you know who ELSE is really confident [B]psychopaths[/B] this is literally the exact fucking reason we are at war with the middle east our president smoked too much herbal peace pipe incense reefer during witchcraft ceremonies in his native jungle tribe when he was a kid and now we have a psycho controlling our country vote romney 2012 his pasty skin proves he has stayed far away from the mystical powder of the kenyan mountains
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