Galinsky's Argument Analysis

Whereas famous leaders like Czar Nicholas, and Hitler had power. Eventually, they became corrupted and used power for wrong ways. No, it doesn't corrupt at all times given that power can be used to benefit. Power doesn't always breed corruption, For example, Martin Luther King Jr. used his powerful voice to finally get rid of racism. He did not encourage people to use violence, instead he said words are mightier than fist. Which proved to be true.
For one thing, Galinsky expected that the empowered participants would be distracted by their own high-powered perch and would behave more impulsively, leading to more errors in recognizing the color of the font. Rather, he found the opposite was true. Proving that power doesn't always breed corruption but makes us aware of the responsibility we are taking on as a leader. However, five of the ten were rated as deeply demeaning. These included things like” “Say I’m filthy five times” and “Bark like a dog three times”. The other five were not considered particularly demeaning. They included: “tell the experimenter a funny joke” and “clap your

hands 50 times”. Countering that power isn’t always used in the right way.
Furthermore, Researchers “primed” each group at the outset – using a variety of psychological devices – to feel powerful, powerless or neutral.

As stated by Kate Pickert on pg. 1 of TIME “In one priming exercise, students were asked to form sentences using specific groups of words. The powerful group got words that implied high power, like “authority” or “dominate”. The powerless group were given words such as “subordinate” and “obey”. The control group got power-neutral words.” In contrast, Of course, not everybody in the high power/low-status participants behaved similarly. They chose, on average, 0.67 and 0.85 demeaning activities. However, participants who were low in status but high in power-the classic “little Hitler” combination- chose an average of 1.12 deeply demeaning tasks for their partners to engage in. That was a highly statistically significant

distinction.
As a matter of fact, despite the researchers’ expectations, it’s not entirely surprising that feeling powerless or unimportant might lead a person to take less care in his work. After all, if your efforts don’t matter, why bother? Galinsky and his colleagues conducted four separate experiments with 422 volunteers, using different priming techniques and cognitive tests, and each time they got similar results. Powerful-feeling people performed better than the powerless. Galinsky says “The study’s conclusions could have a profound impact on social-order ideology and business.” Considering this, being powerful makes you strive harder than a powerless person would. Though, Low-Power participants were informed that while they had the ability to determine the hoops their partner had to jump through, that partner ultimately had more control because he could remove the low-power participant’s name from the raffle if he did not like the hoops selected. Proving, that with power you can push around those who don’t have power. Eventually leading to corruption.
But even so, if power is used in the right way it can be used to benefit everyone. Power does not lead to corruption for various reasons. Studies show that powerful people tend to work harder than the powerless people. As expected by many, powerful participants would behave recklessly and impulsive, would lead to more errors. But the opposite happened. Galinsky refers to this as “executive function” – the ability to pay attention to relevant information while ignoring irrelevant information, and completing tasks based on relevant information. Finally, proving that if power is used in the right way it can lead to a greater person instead of corruption.