From: The Huffington Post
Power Has A Scary Effect On The Brain, According To Science
February 11, 2015
The Huffington Post:
A little bit of power never hurt, right? Well, a study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, suggests otherwise.
In this webisode of “Fig. 1,” a University of California series that takes a closer look at new research and ideas, psychology professor Dacher Keltner notes that new evidence suggests power has similar effects on the frontal lobes as brain trauma.
“Regions of frontal lobes that are now being called the empathy network … they kind of help us detect other people’s pain,” Keltner explains. “When you damage the empathy networks of your brain, which some people do, they become really impulsive.
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