According to the DSM-5, individuals with ASPD (edit: anti social personality disorder) exhibit a pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years. This pattern is manifested by at least three of seven specific behaviors, including failure to conform to social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for safety, consistent irresponsibility, and lack of remorse.
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ASPD, is that Advertising/Sales Personality Disorder?
Here’s what my glaring personality disorder taught me about B2B sales.
Was it don’t try to sell to people at Walmart we’ll straight up shit your pants
For those that don’t know, ASPD = Anti Social Personality Disorder. Symptoms of ASPD can surface before age 15.
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Does everyone not have at least three of these behaviors? Or is that the joke? Or am I antisocial?
Normally a “and not explained by other conditions” is an important thing. Also the degree you have those attributes, and what 3 is important
The opening part is important. A pattern of disregard for the rights of others.
Most folks will exhibit some of these traits sometimes. We might get defensive and overstep. Feel remorse and make ammends.
If you look at your life and think everyone but you is the problem, rather than understanding that sometimes I am the problem and can work on things from my end, than yeah, that’s ASPD.
But the fact that you’re capable of reflecting and asking suggests that you don’t have ASPD. Some traits, sometimes. Like most folks.
This is no joke that is the official dsm text. Of course an expert has to judge that, but of course you could be.
Or alternatively you can just be autistic and fucking hate random individuals and groups of people. I wish to lock Graham Hancock in an industrial freezer and watch his flesh turn to ice. But I also most likely have C-PTSD which most certainly isn’t helping with the autism, fun fact I was actually diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome circa 2002 because 2 year old me had that bad of a violent meltdown.
I don’t know.
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I think you have to go to the NSFW websites for that
Just read the sections on Sociopaths and Psychopaths. They describe your average marketing department.
C suite also
There was a study, years ago, where they found that socio/psychopaths made up like 30% of all C-Suite employees. In the larger population, they make up less than 2%, and that’s including all partial diagnoses. Add onto that the fact that most upper-level staff at any major firm these days are dipshit Business Idiots who know fuck all about jack shit, and you get the modern irrational economy.
The presence of narcissism and sociopathy in the C-suite is due to selection bias, specifically for people with “bold” personality traits.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28406658/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886919307007
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychopathic-tendencies-help-some-people-succeed-in-business/
- https://marytaylorandassociates.com/news-insights/the-existence-of-sociopathy-in-business/
When you layer masking on top of that, you get a skilled individual that can navigate a lot of business situations. This all happens because they’re incredibly useful traits for making money, above all else. Ethics be damned.
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Alas I am poor so no wallet voting applies.
Actually it does. The reason for you not buying it doesn’t matter. They wasted their advertisement dollars on you, because you’re not buying it anyway.
A disorder must either somehow negatively impact your activities of daily living like your job or staying out of prison, or causes significant distress. If you’re explicitly making tons of legal money off your delusions, it’s not a disorder.
This definition denies the existence of the functional disabled.
so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?
i don’t think that’s quite right.
He is half right but he forgot the “or negatively impact others’ lives” half.
When it comes to the DSM-V, that’s how it works. You must have a functional impairment.
there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?
Only if it makes you unable to develop stable relationships. DSM doesn’t pathologize being an asshole. That’s normal human functioning.
If advertising to you didn’t work then advertisers wouldn’t be doing it.
advertising works when it’s good advertising, the idea that you can run ads showing a puppy getting sawed in half and it’ll magically make people buy your product is the greatest piece of cope ever conjured by mankind.
As a young adult man, seeing an ad for diapers designed for elderly women doesn’t entice me to buy them. I’m also not buying a new car after seeing every ad for a car. I know of Liberty Mutual by way of their advertisements but I’m not in the market for buying an emu so they won’t get my business.
Advertising does not work equally well on everyone. It’s literally a numbers game.
Why did we suddenly change from “thinking that advertising is fine is absolutely a mental illness” to “advertisers can successfully cause tons of damage”?
I don’t see a lot of reasons for such a shift away from the point.
Not all advertising is equal. Yes, increasing awareness pays off.
That doesn’t mean your product putting a one minute ad up on YouTube that gets pasted in front of a 10 second cat video will have a positive response.
