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How to tell if your co-worker is a psychopath
By Emma Reynolds, News.com.au
September 13, 2016 | 9:44am
We’ve all had that co-worker at some point: superficially charming, supremely self-confident, but they’ll walk over anyone to get ahead and not feel a second’s remorse.
Perhaps, after you were burned yet again, you half-joked that they must have a personality disorder.
Today, experts believe it’s very possible that your colleague is a psychopath.
Groundbreaking research presented at the Australian Psychology Society Congress in Melbourne this week reveals that one in five corporate workers may have the disorder — as many as in the prison population.
Forensic psychologist Nathan Brooks found that psychopathic traits are common in the upper echelons of the corporate world, with a prevalence of between 3 and 21 percent (the latter in a study of supply chain professionals).
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