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How Power Changes Us, with Brian Klaas

Intelligence Squared

Are We Attracted to Corrupt People or Bad People?

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Is there something about our chimpanzee brains that makes some of us attractid, at least some of the time, to people who are clearly bad and evil? I mean, i found this question like, deeply immersive while i was researching it, because there's so many different threads that try to explain why we are drawn to the wrong leaders. And what people like donald trump do very effectively is they have exploited something called an evolutionary mismatch. Our modern day skulls house a stone age mind, is how they put it. We actually have a sophisticated social environment in ways that primates may not,. which is to say that being the biggest and strongest person is no longer necessary to be the most powerful

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