P3 Psychology Topic

Choosing my topic for my paper was a relatively easy task for me. I chose to stray away from the "Ethics of Higher Education" themes because I feel that they are restrictive in the way that they only present mainstream and overly glorified agendas. Just my opinion. This left me to brainstorm on my own time, and during a conversation with a friend, I decided I would write about a psychology based topic. Specifically about sociopaths, and their prevalence in the corporate and political world.

Why research question will be a variation of "Why is there such a high ratio of individuals, that can be considered high-functioning sociopaths, in the corporate and political world, while the opposite can be said about the those incarcerated in the prison system?" I arrived at this research subject because of a study I recalled a study in which psychologists were stumped on why they found so few criminal sociopaths, while accidentally arriving at evidence of a predominantly bigger group of sociopaths living within the corporate world like that of Wall Street.

A number of stakeholders in my topic would be psychologists, a control group of normal functioning corporate CEOs or politicians, a test group of CEOs and politicians that show signs of sociopathy, and a group of random prisoners. The stakeholders with the biggest stake would be the psychologists, and in order to find any ideas to implement, a basic degree of psychology must first be understood.

I am confident moving forward with P3 because this topic is very interesting to me and I doubt I'll have a difficult time finding sources and information. Not to mention, I have a decent exposure to people with sociopathic traits, and understanding them to find out why or how they take up so many different positions of power will be a captivating topic.