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Power & Powerlessness: Escaping the power paradox

Talk Psych to Me

English - March 12, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
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What happens to us when we get pumped up on power or deflated by powerlessness?  Does power corrupt us or does it set us free? And how can we escape, what psychologist  Dacher Keltner calls, the "power paradox"?

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Produced by Scarlet Moon Things
Co-hosted by Brian Luna and Tania Luna
Theme music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings