You've probably heard about the famous Stanford prison experiment. (Refresher: College students were randomly assigned to be either a prisoner or a guard in a fake prison, and the "guards" started harassing the "prisoners." It got so bad that the was canceled after six days.). That's pretty extreme, but later studies have found that when people feel like they're in a power position, they become worse at judging a person's feelings based on their facial expressions, indicating a loss of empathy.
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Non-FictionThe human psyche is infinitely complex, which means new research comes out every day that helps illuminate why were are the way we are. And while some psychological studies provide us with fairly banal psychology facts (for example, one scientist's...
