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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Power promotes hypocrisy


Power promotes hypocrisy, study finds
Dec. 29, 2009
Courtesy Association for Psychological Science
and 
World Science staff

2009 may well be re mem bered for its scandal-ridden head lines, from ad mis sions of ex tra mar i tal af fairs by gov­er nors and sen a tors, to cor po rate ex ec u tives fly ing pri vate jets while cut ting em ploy ee ben e fits, and most re­cent ly, to a mys te ri ous early morn ing car crash in Flor i da. The past year has been marked by a se ries of mor al trans gres sions by pow er ful fig ures in po lit i cal, busi ness and celebr ity cir cles.


A new study ex plores why pow er ful peo­ple – many of whom take a mor al high ground – don’t prac tice what they preach. Above, a ses sion of U.S. Con gress pre­pares to lis ten to the pre si dent's State of the Union Speech in a 2003 White House photo.


A new study ex plores why pow er ful peo ple – many of whom take a mor al high ground – don’t prac tice what they preach.Re search ers sought to de ter mine wheth er pow er in spires hy poc ri sy, the ten­den cy to hold high stan dards for oth ers while per form ing mor ally sus pect be­hav iors one self. The re search found that pow er makes peo ple stricter in mor al judg ment of oth ers – while go ing easier on them selves./,,,/

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