The experience of power makes you less empathic
→ One of the world’s leading researchers into the effects of having power is psychology professor Dacher Keltner from UC Berkeley. After decades of studies into how power influences people, he introduced ‘the Power Paradox’: that people often gain power by working for the common good via values such as empathy and will to cooperate, but then lose the same qualities as soon as they gain power. Based on his own and other scientists’