Cookie-Based Research Suggests Powerful People Are Sloppier Eaters

This week ’s video recording in the University of California system ’s Fig . 1YouTube series(tag line : “ Get inside the intellect of a researcher ! ” ) offers a bite - sized deterrent example in why , precisely , muscular people tend to be so selfish .

turn out when the great unwashed feel more hefty , it has a curious essence on the “ empathy internet ” in the mental capacity ’s frontal lobe . The “ Cookie Monster ” written report , which was take by UC Berkeley’sGreater Good Science Center , placed groups of three in a room with a denture of four cookie , gave them a menial chore , and arbitrarily designate one person “ in charge . ”

Turns out that the person with the most power ( even fake , randomly award major power ) would tend to avail him or herself to the last cookie on the dental plate . No surprisal that power makes people act more impulsively and egotistically … but it also made them deplete with more sloppy zest , a la Cookie Monster .