{"id":15665,"date":"2015-11-15T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T00:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15665"},"modified":"2015-11-15T17:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T00:12:49","slug":"digital-journal-power-robs-the-brain-of-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15665","title":{"rendered":"Digital Journal | Power robs the brain of empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/356229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DJ_Brain-Image_PD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Digital Journal (click through for photo information)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Researchers have some new insights into how power diminishes a person&#8217;s capacity for empathy. According to scientists, a sense of power shuts down a part of the brain that helps us connect with others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For their study that builds on past information about how the brain operates, the researchers found that even the smallest bit of power &#8211; for instance from a job promotion or more money &#8211; can shut down our ability to empathize with others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>Read the entire article at Digital Journal: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/356229\">Power robs the brain of empathy<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Researchers have some new insights into how power diminishes a person&#8217;s capacity for empathy. According to scientists, a sense of power shuts down a part of the brain that helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[480,1119],"class_list":["post-15665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-power","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15670,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665\/revisions\/15670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}