When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart

[Contrary1]

Science shows that powerful people really do become evil, heartless. That may explain a lot.

"Even the smallest dose of power can change a person. You've probably seen it. Someone gets a promotion or a bit of fame and then, suddenly, they're a little less friendly to the people beneath them.

So here's a question that may seem too simple: Why?

If you ask a psychologist, he or she may tell you that the powerful are simply too busy. They don't have the time to fully attend to their less powerful counterparts.

But if you ask Sukhvinder Obhi, a neuroscientist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, he might give you another explanation: Power fundamentally changes how the brain operates..."

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/10/210686255/a-sense-of-power-can-do-a-number-on-your-brain?ft=1&f=1007

[Downwinder]

1. They should expand their study to elected officials.

[TM99]

2. Well it looks like another one

of the classic psychologists was right all along....yet again.

“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” -- Jung

[Zorra]

3. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Great men are almost always bad men."
~ John Acton

Rejecting personal wealth and power and wealth in order to save your soul is an old concept.

"Where your treasure lies, there will your heart be also."

Fascinating stuff, thanks Contrary 1.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. But some people are more easily corrupted by power.

>>>“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
David Brin>>>>

[boston bean]

4. The movie "scrooge" with albert finney taught me this ages go. nt