Recent research has been paying attention to psychopathic traits in business managers and leaders in general and not only among sellers and buyers. Boddy suggests that because of abusive supervision by psychopaths, large amounts of anti-group feeling will be generated among the employees of the organizations that psychopaths work in. This should result in high levels of counterproductive behavior as employees give vent to their anger with the corporation, which they perceive to be acting through its psychopathic managers in a way that is eminently unfair to them. In 1941, H. M. Cleckley (1988) published a classic monograph Mask of Sanity, in which he established a set of diagnostic criteria for psychopathy and proposed an etiological model
