I believe that the most intelligent strategy is to integrate this type of very creative persons in the research groups. Many researches have a high level of fear when they interact with gifted students or other gifted professors. This is completely absurd. The persons are different in their capacities and talents. Gifted persons can be very creative in certain areas such as mathematical analysis and not in social aspects for example. Gifted persons show tendency towards severe intellectual frustration, are chaotic in the methods of working, research in very different lines, show a low tolerance to stress, hypersensitivity, a bad adaptation to rigid academic hierarchies, etc... However, the gifted persons can help to integrate different specialties, are highly creative, with high productivity, work hard if they are motivated, are flexible and adaptable to different circumstances, etc.. . In a research group it is necessary to group the different aptitudes and characteristics of researchers. I believe that certain Universities are losing a huge amount of possibilities by mobbing against the gifted individuals. Obviously this is not good for the institutions and the society. Also, this can be a problem of discrimination with bad consequences for gifted researchers and their families. My main question is: Why this is permitted by certain institutions? Are there psychological or sociological studies that analyze these questions and their effects on educational organizations and the whole system?
You can get the similar or apropriate answer by searching the keyword in the GOOGLE SCHOLAR page. Usually you will get the first paper similar to your keyword.
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The Workplace Mobbing of Highly Gifted Adults: An Unremarked Barbarism
Kotleras, Reuven. Advanced Development11 (2007): 130-148.
Great Jess. I agree with you. However, many gifted adults only work for self intellectual satisfaction. Many thanks for your interesting contribution. Recently I had acted in some TV programs as MENSA and AEST member and the reaction in my institution had changed completely. I believe that gifted people must out of the isolation and defend their rights with bravery. However the lost of intellectual satisfaction is very high. I continually have creative ideas but I work alone since 24 years ago. Really the main cause is that anybody can understand me. My thinking is very abstract and I usually see deeply the connections between the different parts of the problems. When I understand a line of research I need change of activity. Observe the variaty of topics of my papers. I enjoy a lot but this is not very efficient. This is a problem for the specialization. Probably you have here an interesting area of research: problems of the gifted researches. Probably in many countries this is not a problem but in Spain by the mentality is a very big problem. Creativity is seen as dyssynchrony. In any case I am happy with your response and interest. Regards
PD: Please excuse my level of English ;-)
I have also observed this phenomenon. Researchers are naturally talented people but they feel uncomfortable around another talented individual who may challenge their intelligencia
I think being good or gifted takes a bit of modesty perhaps, and accepting other people's suggestions. They must also know how to listen, so as not to appear arrogant.
Dears Professors Jess Gregory and Daniel Patón, I agree with both of you.
Academic mobbing should not exist.
I found interesting the following publication:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170397/
Here is the abstract of the publication:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170397/
I agree with you Professor Abubeker Hassen. I am glad that you found it interesting and useful. Best regards.
Dear Zuleiny Meneses Martin :
Most gifted people I know, and I know many, are not arrogant because they feel so different from others that their self-esteem is at a low ebb. Let's differentiate academic talents (high intelligence in memory, logic and linguistics) from the gifted (high in all categories including perception, emotions and so on). The academically gifted are often arrogant. Most gifted people are not usually arrogant because their emotional side prevents them from being so. As Jeanne Siaud-Facchin, one of Europe's leading experts on this subject, says: "The gifted think with their heart". We love to share but in an environment of acceptance towards us that rarely occurs. Rejection of our collective is often the norm. The academic system needs our creativity (the strength of the gifted) and we need to be helped because we tend to be disorganized, chaotic and lack leadership. I see it as a symbiosis, but we are the minority.
Thanks. D
Dear Professor Daniel Patón, thank you for your wise question.
Best regards.
Dr. Imilla I. Arias-Olguín
Dear colleagues thank you for sharing valuables answers. Best regards.
Dr. Imilla I. Arias-Olguín
Good anaylsis Prof Abubeker Hassen . I completely agree with you. Diversity is what drive high value outcomes
I find the question and the discussion very interesting. Envy could be one of the reasons for mobbing of gifted individuals as they usually excel their peers in their performances. That may affect the motivation of the affected individual with negative consequences on his/her future contribution the institution. Thus, institutions must have regulations for controlling such offences.
Dear Professor Adugna Tolera and others:
I could not agree with you more. The main casualty of harassment is the victim, but also the institution. People who have suffered mobbing come to see the institution that covers up for the harassers as a problem and may come to make the decision to work for others. For example, conducting investigations that do not affect the region or area where the institution is located. They may also refuse to supervise doctoral dissertations within the institution but outside. In other words, they end up receiving a salary and work for others. Obviously the scientific articles have repercussions in the institution, until the people under mobbing decide to sign from another entity (a foundation, a private business, other university...). I don't know if I am making myself clear. In any case, I disagree that the system corrects these abuses. Rather, they are covered up. We should also point out that there are very subtle forms of harassment that can hardly be proven or punishable. The problem with mobbing is that each action separately seems little, but if we accumulate them over 30 years for example they form a real problem that can affect severely to health in many forms (stress, anxiety, ocular pressure, etc.). In the end, the harassed are sustained by rage and the desire to survive or even a determination of the type: I'd rather die than give up.
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