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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. "People say the United States is a meritocracy," says Galinsky...
Given that global CO2 emissions total more than 28 billion tons a year, however, that still doesn't add up to a whole lot. Indeed, since carbon emissions will continue to rise in the developing world no matter what we do, it's worth asking why we should even bother to change our lifestyles. One reason is to show others how it can be done. "None of us believes this will end climate change," says Annabelle Gurwitch, who hosts a show on footprinting called Wa$ted! on the new network Planet Green. "But it lets people feel effective...
...However, when Samuels errs on the side of vulnerability, it’s hard to deny the anxiety that he feels about living in a world in which certainty has dissipated. “Why bother? Why get married? What are families for?” he asks his readers. “What was new about these questions was that they didn’t have answers, or that the answers they did have were so multiple and contingent and arbitrary that they never really felt like answers...
Such disdain for the democratic process raises a question: why bother with elections at all? Other African tyrannies have dispensed with the awkward trial of popular votes altogether, and ruled as unapologetic autocracies. So why the need for a veneer of respectability, however thin, in Zimbabwe? The answer lies in the psychology of Mugabe and his fellow liberation leaders, many of whom came from a background of elite academia. Mugabe himself has seven degrees, most of them earned during the 11 years he spent in prison when the country was called Rhodesia...
...It’s fine,” he says, tearing down a poster, nonplussed. “It doesn’t really bother me that much...