\u201cWe asked employees to recall a time when their supervisors abused them in the workplace,\u201d says Lindie Liang of the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The point: to study what made people feel better after being treated unfairly by their boss.<\/p>\n
To relieve their stress, the researchers had a study group of 229 people in Canada and the United States abuse voodoo dolls representing their bosses with pins, candles, or pliers, and then fill out a questionnaire to see if they felt better compared to a control group that didn\u2019t abuse the dolls.<\/p>\n
The results were published in The Leadership Quarterly, and \u201cWhat we found, across several studies,\u201d Liang says, is \u201cpeople who had the opportunity to retaliate, to harm the voodoo doll that symbolized their boss, they actually showed restored justice perception.\u201d In other words, he says, they felt they got revenge \u201cwithout actually murdering their supervisor.\u201d<\/p>\n
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