Power and Expectations: The Neuroscience of Group Dynamics
Your Brain at Work
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The Importance of Expectations in Status
Joyce Wilbur: We manipulate status. When someone seems confident, we assume they're competent. In fact, there was a whole body of research at one point about how the incompetent get promoted. There's a whole study done on that. And people have literally studied how incompetent people get promoted. They basically use confidence to push their way through. So it's really interesting. Joy, is there something you've seen in your career? Yeah, sure.
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