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Aug 29, 2012 13 min

Ian Robertson: The Winner Effect

from Four Thought Hosted by BBC Radio 4

Ian Robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin. He argues that success and being a winner has an effect on us that is "as strong as any drug" - and so does that mean there is a neurological explanation to the old idea that power corrupts?

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