TToB: When a paternalistic boss shares fake news, employees are more likely to disbelieve it. Tough or Bluff???
Added 2024-03-12 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Oh wow! 😮
juliana reider
2024-03-12 21:10:01 +0000 UTCIt’s BLUFF! Unfortunately, participants were found to be more likely to believe fake information from paternalistic and authoritarian bosses when compared to autonomous bosses. Ugh. (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39807-x)
Psychology In Seattle
2024-03-12 20:08:50 +0000 UTCThought of another way this comparison could go— “ then if this person was another employee and not their boss, (still being paternalistic and sharing fake news.)”. Is it more about their position than the content of their words that is causing the disbelief. Very interesting. 🤔
juliana reider
2024-03-12 18:45:18 +0000 UTCI guess my question here is “what is the comparison to?” If a paternalistic boss shares fake news, the employees are more likely to disbelieve it than… if what? There are multiple ways to end the sentence/ idea and it seems ambiguous. Is it “than if the boss was not paternalistic?” Is it “ than if the news was not fake?” Is it both these things? What scenario are we comparing this scenario to? Very interesting ideas here and makes for interesting conversation. I love the tough or Bluffs. I’m not trying to be critical. Just curious.🙂
juliana reider
2024-03-12 18:42:41 +0000 UTCThis Tough or Bluff is almost Orwellian in its doublespeak. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic...” In that spirit, my conclusion is: Neither tough nor bluff! :) :) :)
Mary L
2024-03-12 18:34:42 +0000 UTCBluff.. We are primed to believe parents and parent-figures
N Raptor
2024-03-12 18:33:51 +0000 UTCIf a paternalistic boss tends to overpower their employees' thinking and decision-making on a regular basis, I can imagine that those employees would tend to mistrust their own judgement more often over time, which in turn would make it easier for them to blindly trust their boss no matter what they say Therefore it'd be more difficult for the employees to correctly disbelieve the fake news shared by their superior making this statement a Bluff in my opinion
Jessica Jordan
2024-03-12 17:30:14 +0000 UTCBluff, I think....? But yeah I'm having trouble parsing all the negatives.
Mari
2024-03-12 16:44:40 +0000 UTCBluff. People believe paternalistic people all the time.
Juspreet
2024-03-12 16:32:09 +0000 UTCyeah, I don't really understand, too many negatives (?)
Tracy Cox
2024-03-12 15:45:33 +0000 UTCBluff
Deborah Lindstrom
2024-03-12 15:38:59 +0000 UTCSadly I think bluff
Mirandeva
2024-03-12 15:20:20 +0000 UTC
