Journalism Is Among Top 10 Occupations to Most Likely Attract Psychopaths

Per AOL Jobs, the recent book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success outlines several fields which are more likely to attract psychopaths than others. Unfortunately for us, media jobs (primarily television and radio) ranked third on the list and journalist follows in seventh place.

Perhaps the explanation will provide more insight. As per the piece, author Kevin Dutton indicated that “a number of psychopathic attributes [are] actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals – attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus.”