Has anyone suggested that the psychopantic love sometimes displayed in office environments to a tyrant boss could be a manifestation of a type of stockholms syndrome.
Yes, I’ve seen it. One thing I’ve seen that I’ve never understood is how a tyrant boss can royally screw people over and yet the other employees seem to think, “That’ll never happen to me.” or “well so-and-so” deserved it."
I never really thought of it that way, but I think you’re right - there’s also the thing where people stay in favour with the throne (and remain in a comparatively powerful position) by making others look bad or stealing the credit for their successes.
Before we come up with explanations for this psycopantic (whatever that means) love, can we have some evidence that it actually exists?
“Sycophantic”?
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
Moderator…apologies…it should have read sycophantic…
Could you change the title pls…i mean please
There are some references to studies in the Wikipedia article about sycophancy, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it’s pretty widely accepted to exist as a phenomenon, and I think there would be people asserting it to be a myth if it was one.
It may also be as simple as “if I kiss their ass they won’t fire ME”.