Do-Gooders Are More Hated At Workplace

Being suspicious, jealous or hostile toward those who seem better or nicer or holier than us appears to run deep in the psychological makeup of humans.

Are you a do-gooder at your workplace? In the competitive circumstances, being highly cooperative and generous can attract hatred and social punishment, said researchers.

It was found that cooperative behaviour attracted punishment most often in groups whose members compete with each other. This was even the case when punishing or derogating the do-gooder lessened benefits for the entire group, including the punisher.

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‘Being suspicious, jealous or hostile toward those who seem better or nicer or holier than us appears to run deep in the psychological makeup of humans.’

However, if there was no competition, cooperation increased, the study, published in the journal Psychological Science, showed.

"Most of the time we like the cooperators, the good guys. We like it when the bad guys get their comeuppance, and when non-cooperators are punished," said Pat Barclay, Professor at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada.

"But some of the time, cooperators are the ones that get punished. People will hate on the really good guys. This pattern has been found in every culture in which it has been looked at," Barclay added.

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Some people like to bring cooperators down a peg, especially if they think the good guys make them look bad in the workplace, boardroom or other organisation, Barclay said.

It may help them to potentially dominate all things.

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Anthropological evidence from egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies suggests a similar social phenomenon prevented excellent hunters from dominating the group.

"In a lot of these societies, they defend their equal status by bringing down somebody who could potentially lord things over everybody else," Barclay said.

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"You can imagine within an organisation today the attitude, 'Hey, you're working too hard and making the rest of us look bad.'

"In some organisations people are known for policing how hard others work, to make sure no one is raising the bar from what is expected," Barclay noted.

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