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Recent research compared the personalities of inmates of a maximum security prison and successful CEOs of quoted companies. The game, of course, was to find similarities rather than differences. And this is indeed what was found. The groups are most similar on three personality disorders: antisocial, narcissistic, and paranoid.
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© 2005 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2005). Lies, self-love, and paranoia. In: The People Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510098_36
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