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Equity Explained: Understanding the "E" in DE&I

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The Importance of Power in the Social Interactions

Power is one of the factors that influences how humans interact in this dynamic world. We're thinking about power as a situation where there's asymmetry in the ways that individuals control the flow of resources. One subjective sense of power often has a greater influence on behavior than the amount of power one actually possesses. A power differential may be obvious or it might be a bit more subtle, but either way, when we have an awareness that we are in a different or lower power state, it does affect our cognition.

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