Gift Hub: Illusory Control

February 24, 2013

From Stanford, in the Department of Organizational Pychology, comes this study by Nathaniel Fast.

Three experiments demonstrated that the experience of power leads to an illusion of personal control.

In a related study the powerful over-estimate their own height. Links per comment here at Gifthub.

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