Power's punishing impact: Power linked to tendency to punish harshly
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 15:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Providing a sense of power to someone instills a black-and-white sense of right and wrong (especially wrong), new research shows. Once armed with this moral clarity, powerful people then perceive wrongdoing with much less ambiguity than people lacking this power, and punish apparent wrong-doers with more severity than people without power would.