Politicians

Nationalist and Fascist books - Steven Books. Power promotes hypocrisy: study. A new study ex­plores why pow­er­ful peo­ple – many of whom take a mor­al high ground – don’t prac­tice what they preach.

Re­search­ers sought to de­ter­mine wheth­er pow­er in­spires hy­poc­ri­sy, the ten­den­cy to hold high stan­dards for oth­ers while per­form­ing mor­ally sus­pect be­hav­iors one­self. The re­search found that pow­er makes peo­ple stricter in mor­al judg­ment of oth­ers – while go­ing easier on them­selves. The re­search was con­ducted by Joris Lam­mers and Diederik A. Stapel of Til­burg Un­ivers­ity in the Neth­er­lands, and by Ad­am Galin­sky of the Kel­logg School of Man­age­ment at North­west­ern Un­ivers­ity in Ev­ans­ton, Ill.

<em>Oh-oh!</em> Politicians share personality traits with serial killers: Study. Using his law enforcement experience and data drawn from the FBI's behavioral analysis unit, Jim Kouri has collected a series of personality traits common to a couple of professions.

Kouri, who's a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others. These traits, Kouri points out in his analysis, are common to psychopathic serial killers. But -- and here's the part that may spark some controversy and defensive discussion -- these traits are also common to American politicians.