<p>Believing that you’re better than everyone else isn’t socipathic per se. It is sometimes a characteristic of sociopaths but an entitlement complex in and of itself isn’t sociopathic behavior.</p>
<p>I think some of us are forgetting that tenure is based mostly on your productivity and research strength but also your fit with the department. No one wants to grant a lifetime lease to work with someone they can’t stand, especially if they themselves are already tenured and have another 20-30 years or more to work at a university department. Perhaps her instability was partially belied in her personality - the other professors may have disliked her and her research wasn’t outstanding enough to make up for that.</p>
<p>It’s also not a pot shot at Harvard to imply that Amy Bishop may have thought that her PhD should inspire respect and servitude. The same thing could have been said about Columbia or Yale or UA-Huntsville, really, and the meaning wouldn’t have changed. The only reason Harvard was even in there is because that’s the place where she actually got her PhD from. It has nothing to do with Harvard and everything to do with Bishop’s own supposed superiority complex.</p>