ríctus de poder 3

"(...) Researchers led by the psychologist Dacher Keltner took groups of three ordinary volunteers and randomly put one of them in charge. Each trio had a half-hour to work through a boring social survey. Then a researcher came in and left a plateful of precisely five cookies. Care to guess which volunteer typically grabbed an extra cookie? The volunteer who had randomly been assigned the power role was also more likely to eat it with his mouth open, spew crumbs on partners and get cookie detritus on his face and on the table. (...)"

Por Richard Conniff, autor do The Natural History of the Rich. New Iork Times


Pois, a experiência também já nos tinha feito perceber este impulso, mas... é necessariamente assim? Indubitavelmente? Triste imagem. Será sempre verdadeira?