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   How So Many Psychopaths Manage to Reach Positions of Power   
      
      
   September 9, 2014   
      
   How do so many psychopaths slip into positions of power without being detected?   
      
      
      
   People with psychopathic tendencies who also have high IQs can hide their true   
   personalities, new research finds.   
      
   It helps explains how people who are dangerous risk-takers are able to fake   
   their way into powerful management positions.   
      
   The conclusions come from a study to be published in the Journal of Forensic   
   Psychiatry and Psychology, which was inspired by the unusually high levels of   
   psychopaths amongst business managers (Bate et al., 2014).   
      
   Research has found that while around 1% of the general population are   
   psychopaths, the level rises to 3% amongst business managers.   
      
   Carolyn Bate, the study's first author, said:   
      
   "I thought that intelligence could be an explanation for this, and it could be   
   a problem if there are increased numbers of psychopaths at a high level in   
   business.   
      
   The figure could be more than three per cent, because if people are aware they   
   are psychopathic they can also lie - they are quite manipulative and lack   
   empathy."   
      
      
      
      
   The psychopaths in business are quite different from the lurid picture painted   
   by the media, Bate explained:   
   "The ones who are at the top of businesses are often charming and intelligent,   
   but with emotional deficits, as opposed to psychopaths who are quite erratic   
   and tend to commit gruesome crimes and are often caught and imprisoned."   
      
   To test these ideas the researchers gave a group of people a standard test of   
   psychopathy.   
      
   They were also shown a series of pictures which tested their levels of empathy   
   and, at the same time, their galvanic skin response was measured to assess   
   their emotional reaction to the pictures.   
      
   Psychopaths with average or high intelligence were able to regulate their   
   galvanic skin response so that their tests appeared normal.   
      
   Those psychopaths with low intelligence in the study, though, showed abnormal   
   responses typical of psychopaths.   
      
   Perhaps with this, and other techniques, psychopaths with high intelligence   
   are able to blend in with other people by pretending to have the same   
   responses as them.   
      
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