Anyone who has ever had a political boss has doubtless adjoin heads with that person and knows that it can make for an awkward vibration in the office . While it would be easy to let your resentment fester and possibly affect your work performance , scientists have a proficient solution : Get a voodoo skirt .
AsScienceAlertreports , a new studypublishedinThe Leadership Quarterlyfound that when employee feel mistreated in the workplace , stab peg into a hoodoo wench of their boss can be an effective agency of managing the situation ( and certainly a much well solution than stew in anger ) . The study , pass by psychologist Dr. Lindie Hanyu Liang , an assistant prof at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario , Canada , found that engaging in " emblematic revenge " against one ’s boss after perceive mistreatment eased participants ' rancour .
" We recover a unsubdivided and harmless symbolic turn of revenge can make people experience like they ’re get even and restoring their sense of fairness , " LiangtoldThe Telegraph .
In one experimentation , nearly 200 full - time employees were require to return an instance in which they felt maltreat by their boss . Some of the participant were then given one full minute to exact their revenge on a practical voodoo doll via a range of torture options , admit stick the doll with pins , burn it with a candle , or pinching it with pliers . Then , all of the study ’s participants completed a fill - in - the - clean word exercise .
Not only did those participants who got the chance to ( fake ) torture their boss written report feel less angry about the billet , they also did well on the use . The authors of the work concluded that harmless retaliation not only profit individuals , but may also benefit the company as a whole , because employees ' mother wit of justice is authoritative for their well - being and carrying out on the task .
Liang toldThe Telegraphthat you do n’t even demand a voodoo doll to achieve the desire result . " Theoretically anything that serves as a symbolic enactment of revenge , like make darts at a picture show of your boss , might make , " she said .
Just do n’t let your boss catch you !
[ h / tScienceAlert ]
