Does It Pay to Be Ruthless? [greatergood.berkeley.edu]
In highly competitive industries, like politics or finance, many people assume that you need to be cutthroat and merciless to be successful. Otherwise, you won’t win the hard battles or take big risks for big returns. But a 2016 study found that U.S. senators displaying more ruthless, psychopathic behaviors had less support among colleagues for their proposed bills. And now, another study recently published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin reveals that walking all over others...