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Re:“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised A... by ImprovedSilence on Friday December 21, 2012 @01:47PM (#4953919)
>>"Any job that grants authority over other people probably attracts this type of employee"

Ah, but is it the employee seeks out this position because they are predisposed to exert control over others, or do they exert control because of the position they are put in, ala the stanford prison experiment[1] (situational attribution v. dispositional attribution)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

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Re:“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised A... by Kliment on Saturday December 22, 2012 @05:23AM (#4956296)
Does it really make a difference? The two are indistinguishable from the POV of the victim.
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