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Word: gruenfeld (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2009-2009
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...explore how we come by our illusory sense of power, a team led by business professors Nathanael Fast and Deborah Gruenfeld of Stanford University devised a series of experiments. In the first, they recruited 38 students and divided them into three groups. They asked one group to write about an experience in which they felt they had control over other people, and another group to write about a time they felt out of control. The third group wrote nothing. All of the students were then given dice and told that if they correctly guessed the number they rolled, they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Powerful People Overestimate Themselves | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

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