January 23, 2010
The Economist published an interesting article on the psychology of power where a series of experiments were conducted in an attempt to elicit states of powerfulness and powerlessness in the minds of volunteers. Taken together, these results do indeed suggest that power tends to corrupt and to promote a hypocritical tendency to hold other people [...]
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely
January 23, 2010The Economist published an interesting article on the psychology of power where a series of experiments were conducted in an attempt to elicit states of powerfulness and powerlessness in the minds of volunteers. Taken together, these results do indeed suggest that power tends to corrupt and to promote a hypocritical tendency to hold other people [...]