238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
The Michael Shermer Show
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Do We Really Want Power?
I think it's generally a good thing to be sceptical of power, because that's what counteracts its abuses. So i started researching the breakdown of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism. And my ph d research was about people who rigged elections and e who did awful things to the people below themi. I met with various former despots and so on. Then i also approach the academic literature, trying to figure out what the studies actually say about how power changes your brain,. Whether psychopaths ar better ageting power, all these sorts of questions. But beforeyou start siding the studies and stuff, give us a little bit of background. How does one come to study psychopath
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