Study shows that Powerful people are more hyprocritical than ordinary people!

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Three ad­di­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ments fur­ther ex­am­ined the de­gree to which pow­er­ful peo­ple ac­cept their own mor­al trans­gres­sions ver­sus those com­mit­ted by oth­ers. In all cases, those as­signed to high-pow­er roles showed sig­nif­i­cant hy­poc­ri­sy by more strictly judg­ing oth­ers for speed­ing, dodg­ing taxes and keep­ing a stol­en bike, while find­ing it more ac­ceptable to en­gage in these be­hav­iors them­selves, the re­search­ers said.

Galin­sky said hy­poc­ri­sy has its great­est im­pact among peo­ple who are le­git­i­mately pow­er­ful. In con­trast, a fifth ex­pe­ri­ment found that peo­ple who don’t feel per­son­ally en­ti­tled to their pow­er are ac­tu­ally harder on them­selves than they are on oth­ers, a phe­nom­e­non the re­search­ers dubbed “hy­per­crisy.” The ten­den­cy to be harder on the self than on oth­ers al­so char­ac­ter­ized the pow­erless in mul­ti­ple stud­ies.

“Ul­ti­mately, pat­terns of hy­poc­ri­sy and hy­per­crisy per­pet­u­ate so­cial in­equal­ity. The pow­er­ful im­pose rules and re­straints on oth­ers while dis­re­gard­ing these re­straints for them­selves, where­as the pow­erless col­la­bo­rate in re­pro­duc­ing so­cial in­equal­ity be­cause they don’t feel the same en­ti­tle­ment,” Galin­sky con­clud­ed.

Interesting the writer of the report came to the conclusion that the powerless are  "collaborators" in their own social inequality because they do not feel entitled  like the powerful do....

This is an important public report that will be buried

Interesting observation brian, and yes I agree the NDP should be, and perhaps are to some extent trying to do that.

However, operant conditioning is not so easy to overcome. As that is what I believe is at work, as opposed to "collaboration" in their own disempowerment. And perhaps a bit of limbic brain activity.

The middle classes and elite class are collaborators in the operant conitioning of the lower classes, and have created a system that re-enforces the operant conditioning and/or triggers limbic brain activity.

Now I am not saying all of course, as the many do not even understand their part in its continuance.

Yes, indeed it could be said of almost anyone who achieves any type of power, on any level, unless one is very careful, and/or understands, or sees what occurs, with the dispesation of power dynamics.

That subjective judgement and "overlording' even occurs with test subject delegation of power is indicative of how deeply it indwells within us all. Or at the very best of human endeavor in this realm, is that many do not realize that they take the power bestowed for granted and thus never think about it, and what it implies.