"Power robs the brain of empathy" [View all]

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Power robs the brain of empathy

by Kathleen Blanchard at Digital Journal

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356229

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The researchers suspected being in a position of 'low-power' would increase resonance in the brain and 'high-power' would decrease it.

All of the study participants watched a video of someone squeezing a rubber ball while their brain resonance amplitude was measured.

The experiment turned out as expected. Ohbi said "when people were feeling powerful, the signal wasn't very high at all."

According to an NPR report of the study, Dacher Keltner, a social psychologist at University of California, Berkeley, not involved in the new study said "What we're finding is power diminishes all varieties of empathy."



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