People who are “successful psychopaths” might have a lot of charisma, according to new research in the. Welsh, a PhD student at The State University of New York at Binghamton, is one of the people who conducted the new research. It has found that some psychopathic people do well in their jobs, and they also do well in their criminal careers. Psychopathic people are often unpleasant, callous, or abrasive. However, some psychopathic people have charisma, charm, and confidence.
The researchers set to figure out how psychopathy can lead to good results, and if charisma plays a role in getting those results. In the study, 315 people who were recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform took a series of scientific surveys, including one called the Psychopathic Success Inventory that the researchers created. Charisma didn’t seem to change the link between psychopathic traits and job success. The charisma, on the other hand, slowed down the link between psychopathic traits and success in the form of getting away from detection and getting away with punishment.
People with more charisma were more likely to be able to get away with deviant behavior when they had psychopathic traits.
The study found that there is a link between psychopathy and charisma, which means that psychopathic people can have some of the same characteristics as charismatic people. This means that someone with psychopathic traits could also be attractive, charming, smooth-talking, confident, or persuasive. Also, this study found that people who are very charismatic may be able to get away with and avoid punishment for “bad behavior” more often than other people who are very charismatic.
It’s the first study of its kind and more research will need to be done with a larger sample size. People only have some overlap between these two personality traits in the study and therefore it is difficult to come to a definite conclusion.
