EPISODE · Mar 30, 2021 · 11 MIN
72: Power corrupts even the best of us. But there’s an antidote.
from Berkeley Voices
Humans are a super-collective species that succeeds through cooperation and community, says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. But power and privilege, she says, can corrupt anyone — even the best, most morally guided people. “Social hierarchy is an interesting moderator of our empathic, nurturing, compassionate tendencies,” she says. The good news? There’s an antidote.(A podcast episode featuring this interview with Simon-Thomas was originally published on Berkeley News in 2017. This is a new version that has been rewritten and remixed.)Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/03/30/podcast-power-corrupts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Humans are a super-collective species that succeeds through cooperation and community, says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. But power and privilege, she says, can corrupt anyone — even the best, most morally guided people. “Social hierarchy is an interesting moderator of our empathic, nurturing, compassionate tendencies,” she says. The good news? There’s an antidote.(A podcast episode featuring this interview with Simon-Thomas was originally published on Berkeley News in 2017. This is a new version that has been rewritten and remixed.)Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/03/30/podcast-power-corrupts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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