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Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff return to the office share one trait: Narcissism, research finds (fortune.com)
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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

unobtrusive measures of narcissism via photo size, signature size, and relative compensation predicted greater resistance to remote work in public statements early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dude, come the fuck on. I take psychology as a serious science, so this methodology legitimately offends me: signature size as a metric for narcissism? Get the actual fuck out of here. This reeks of a paper in search of a conclusion.

[–] Peekashoe@lemmy.wtf 21 points 2 months ago

I had the same reaction to that paragraph, but the very next paragraph is more compelling:

In another experiment, the authors primed CEOs’ narcissistic self-image by asking them to reflect on the role that a bold, assertive ego played in the successes of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison. Afterward, leaders who’d been primed were more likely to oppose working from home, compared with those who weren’t primed. This, the researchers concluded, suggests a causal link between activating ego and opposing remote work.

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