[WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.

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On 10/01/07, Christopher Thieme <cdthieme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd love to see some psychology-oriented individual do a case study on
> what
> kind of people are attracted to editing on Wikipedia.  What psychological
> defects lurk behind the computer screens and the keyboards.  Why do I ask?
> Because in the last month (including right now), I've gotten in spats,
> edit
> wars, content disputes, with people who would be poster children for
> narcissitic personality disorder and one of several temporal lobe
> disorders,
> respectively.
>
> Something like that would probably explain a lot about the bitterness,
> control issues, the incessant desire to be "right", etc. that some people
> have when approaching the subject of editing.
>

There's an interesting article on the BBC website about "psychopathic
traits" in the workplace, that seems to have jumped up their most e-mailed
list today despite being from 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3579402.stm

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