Power Changes How the Brain Responds to Others

Let’s examine the paper

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I want to go further into detail about a paper I mentioned the other day. The underlying finding of the article was “Power Changes How the Brain Responds to Others.”

Background

The researchers point to the previous research on Power that suggests

1. There exists “a reliable relationship between power and information processing style.”
2. “High-power individuals are able to ignore peripheral information.”
3. “The powerful, because they already control resources, tend not to process individuating information about the less powerful.”
4. “the powerful often form a relatively shallow understanding of others, compared to the less powerless.”

The last one starts to feel a bit terrifying but true when we think of our government.

The Details.

The authors introduce the terms “motor resonance” and “motor-evoked potential.” These terms represent how much test subjects mirror.

Mirroring is the unconscious behavior in which a person imitates the gestures, speech patterns, or emotions of another. In other words, when we watch someone perform an action, the part of the brain we would…