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Empowerment leads to better mental performance
A study in the May issue of Psychological Science looked at people’s cognitive performance when they were feeling high or low in personal power. Smith, Jostmann, Galinsky, and van Dijk randomly assigned participants to a low-power or high-power group and then tested their executive functions, processes in the brain that guide behavior according to one’s […]
