Considering a promotion? Consider this first: As you get more powerful, physical changes in your brain will make you less and less empathetic towards the people around you. It’s no surprise that powerful people care less about others, yet this is one of the first times scientists have been able to see exactly what happens as we climb the social ladder. It turns out that bringing in steadily more money or joining a higher social class (or, as so often happens in America, both) causes shifts in the brain in a special region that gauges our sensitivity to other peoples’ actions and emotions. As we feel more and more powerful, we have more and more trouble putting ourselves in others’ shoes...
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 04:00:06 +0000
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