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Feeling Powerful
The idea was that when i started doing this research, i really thought that i would be giving people a tool to get through a horrible situation and then go back to being themselves. Cause the old expression is, faked until you make it, but your you're saying, faga until you become it. I did not expect what happened to happen, which is that feeling powerful reveals. When we feel powerless, we do exactly the opposite. It activates the inhibition system. We put a wall up. Why would we be our true selves?We just want to get away, you know. So it undermines our executive function. It makes us pessimistic and just generally feel sad. And we present this