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        • Chart: Powderkeg Formula
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  • Overcoming Hate
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Psychological Effects of Power, Wealth, and Privilege


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Power robs the brain of empathy
From www.digitaljournal.com - September 24, 2013
Researchers have some new insights into how power diminishes a person's capacity for empathy. According to scientists, a sense of power shuts down a part of the brain that helps us connect with others.

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Having Power Diminishes Your Empathy For Others
From www.progressiveimpact.org - September 2, 2013
Douglas LaBier, Ph.D.
New research shows that increased power in an organization diminishes capacity for empathy.
Several research studies have shown that increasing power in an organization (or in any kind of relationship) tends to diminish capacity for empathy, compassion, and seeing another person’s perspective. This is especially damaging to effective leadership of people subordinate to those in power. Studies have shown that increased power diminishes activity of your “mirror neurons,” which provide the sense of connection with another person’s experience, and fuels empathy. Here’s the latest study that sheds more light on what happens. It shows the need for helping leaders develop and strengthen their capacity to connect with others’ reality and experience, which helps counter the tendency towards self-absorption in one’s own perspective, when one is in a higher-power status. 

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How Power Corrupts the Mind
From www.theatlantic.com - August 22, 2013 
Pity the despot.


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Does power lead to corruption?From www.theguardian.com - December 18, 2014 
Scientific research shows that, whatever an individual’s personality type, power leads to antisocial decisions – and testosterone plays an important part too.

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Misused power can hurt us all 
From www.offalyexpress.ie - July 17, 2013 
This was a social psychology experiment which appeared to show, beautifully in fact, how much social situations can influence people's behaviour.

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People new to power more likely to be vengeful
From medicalxpress.com - November 19, 2013  
New research has shown that people who are not accustomed to holding power are more likely to be vengeful when placed in charge. Experienced power-holders, on the other hand, were found to be more tolerant of perceived wrongdoing.

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Does Power Make you Mistrusting?
From www.psychologytoday.com - November 27, 2013 
Power has its benefits--but it can be lonely at the top.


Breaking rules makes you seem powerful
May 20, 2011
SAGE Publications
When people have power, they act the part. Powerful people smile less, interrupt others and speak in a louder voice. When people do not respect the basic rules of social behavior, they lead others to believe that they have power, according to a new study.
Large and in charge: Powerful people overestimate their own height
January 17, 2012
Cornell University
The psychological experience of power makes people feel taller than they are, according to new research. It seems there is actually a physical experience that goes along with feeling powerful.

Powerful People Feel Taller Than They Are
Jan. 23, 2012 — After the huge 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the chairman of BP referred to the victims of the spill as the "small people." He explained it as awkward word choice by a non-native ...  read more
M. M. Duguid, J. A. Goncalo. Living Large: The Powerful Overestimate Their Own Height. Psychological Science, 2011; 23 (1): 36 DOI:10.1177/0956797611422915
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When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart
From www.3quarksdaily.com - September 1, 2013
Via Anne Leong

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Psychology researcher finds that power does go to our heads
From medicalxpress.com -September 30, 2013 
Power -- defined as the ability to influence others -- makes people think differently. For North Americans, a feeling of power leads to thinking in a focused and analytical way, which may be beneficial when pursuing personal goals.

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New Study: Power Blocks Empathy
From pro.gigaom.com - September 8, 2013 
"A recent research study by Jeremy Hogeveen, Michael Inzlicht, and Sukhvinder S. Obhi, Power Changes How the Brain Responds To Others, seems to clearly confirm that power blocks empathy.

The Self-Attribution Fallacy
George Monbiot
November 7, 2011
Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.
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Rule from the Shadows: The Psychology of Power
From topdocumentaryfilms.com - February 27, 2014
It has always been the priority of the ruling elite to promote deceptions which camouflage the true character of the "game." It's time to wake up.

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Rule from the Shadows – The Psychology of Power
From thrivingaudios.com - February 19, 2014 
This is an excellent video describing how we are manipulated by the media and politicians.  It traces the roots of the psychology used by such people as Edward Bernays who […] (Rule from the Shadows - The Psychology of Power...

Why privilege is so hard to give up
From www.salon.com - August 3, 2013
Acknowledging our racial or gender privilege forces us to admit we didn't achieve everything on our own
Study finds wealth gives rise to a sense of entitlement and narcissistic behaviors | The Raw Story
August 25, 2013
The Tyee / By Crawford Kilian
Life Among the Plutocrats -- What Unimaginable Wealth Does to a Person
They control our politics, shape our societies, outsource our jobs.
January 4, 2013  |
Reviewed: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, by Chrystia Freeland (2012)
New Science Explains Why He's So Narcissistic
From www.huffingtonpost.com - August 26, 2013
The rich just love to look at themselves in the mirror. And that's only one of many signs that they're more narcissistic than everyone else, according to new research.
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Social status and power of action of speakers determine the way their statements are perceived
From medicalxpress.com - August 5, 2013 
The actual standing of speakers within a society's power structure determines how their statements are perceived.

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The Influence Of Power Over Perception: Is It Corrupting or Liberating?
From www.medicaldaily.com - July 15, 2013
Mounting research indicates that power effectively alters the way we perceive and interact with the world, and some see this is as a good thing.

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Does power make you mean?
From edition.cnn.com - October 24, 2013 
Research suggests that a default brain mechanism may cause us to lose empathy when we gain power. So promotions really do make us mean. (RT @LaurierNews: Research by #Laurier's @ProfSukhObhi featured by @CNN: Does power make you mean?