Power & Powerlessness: Escaping the power paradox

Talk Psych to Me by Scarlet Moon Things Co.

Mar 12, 202260:50Science & Medicine

What happens to us when we get pumped up on power or deflated by powerlessness? Does power corrupt us or does it set us free? And how can we escape, what psychologist Dacher Keltner calls, the "power paradox"? Do you hav...

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