Does Power Make You Corrupt?
There's a belief that people in power tend to be corrupt, but does power lead to corruption or do the corrupt end up in power? Watch More ▻▻▻▻ http://dne.ws/1O3UjbH Read More: The...
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English historian and politician Lord Acton famously said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." But how true is that? Hey guys, Julia here for DNews. One of the classic examples of twisted psychology is the brutal 1971 Stanford prison experiment. Hand a bunch of regular college age guys power without reservations and things turn very dark, very quickly. But what was it about being given power that changed these young men so fast? Does power really corrupt? Or is it in human nature to dominate completely when in a position of privilege? Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California Berkeley, believes that empathy and social intelligence have been shown to be im...
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English historian and politician Lord Acton famously said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." But how true is that? Hey guys, Julia here for DNews. One of the classic examples of twisted psychology is the brutal 1971 Stanford prison experiment. Hand a bunch of regular college age guys power without reservations and things turn very dark, very quickly. But what was it about being given power that changed these young men so fast? Does power really corrupt? Or is it in human nature to dominate completely when in a position of privilege? Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California Berkeley, believes that empathy and social intelligence have been shown to be im...
