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Powerful people are the most likely to have an affair… be they men OR women
The Daily Mail: One of the oldest accepted notions is that men are more likely to stray than women. But scientists now believe that it is a person’s power, rather than gender, that plays the
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When It Comes To Infidelity, Does Power Trump Gender?
Infidelity may have more to do with feelings of power, and the confidence that comes with it, than it has to do with gender, researchers find.
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It’s All About Control
Having power over others and having choices in your own life share a critical foundation: control, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The paper
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A sobering message about free will
Addiction is a disorder of the will, yet treatment for alcoholism and other addictions often comes with decidedly mixed messages about willpower and abstinence. On the one hand, newly sober addicts and alcoholics often hear
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The Power in Willpower
Until recently, psychologists used to think of “willpower” as a metaphor, part of folk psychology having no relation to what actually happens in the head. The brain, seat of our decisions, wasn’t a muscle, after
