Dacher Keltner || The Power Paradox

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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"Power is given, not grabbed.” — Dacher Keltner Today I’m really excited to have Dr. Dacher Keltner join me for his second appearance on The Psychology Podcast! Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the faculty director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies the science of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition. His research interests also span issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. He is the author of the best-selling book Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and of The Compassionate Instinct. His latest book is The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. In our conversation we discuss several of Dacher’s ideas surrounding power including: The unique definition of power he presents in the book The recent development in power research of the 2 paths to power: Domination, Manipulation, Coercion Status, Respect, Strong Ties The myth of power stereotypes The problems of power The challenges of getting it The difficulties of maintaining it The dangers of becoming addicted to it The Humility pathway of enduring power Links: The Power Paradox is available on Amazon Follow Dacher’s Greater Good Lab on Twitter [Book] Good to Great – Jim Collins (mentioned-“The final stage of leadership is service”) [Book] On Tyranny -Timothy Snyder (mentioned-“People give power to tyrants”) [Book] --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give
0:04.4	you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature
0:09.1	a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:14.4	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.6	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. best. So today I'm really excited to have Dr. Dr. Keltner on the podcast.
0:42.0	Dr. Keltner on the podcast. Dr. is a professor of psychology at the University of California Berkeley
0:46.0	and the founding director of the University's Greater Good Science Center.
0:49.0	Keltner has devoted his career to studying the nature of human goodness and happiness, conducting
0:53.6	groundbreaking research on compassion, all, laughter, and love. He is the author of the
0:58.8	best-selling book, Born to Be Good, and his latest book which we will be discussing
1:02.3	today is called The Power Paradox,
1:04.7	How We Gain and Lose Influence.
1:06.8	Hey, thanks so much for being on the show twice.
1:09.6	It's good being with you again, Scott.
1:11.5	Yay, I always enjoy chatting with you and I thought, you know, last time we focused more on your work on All After and Love,
1:18.0	and I thought, you know, today, particularly under certain political climate we're living in.
1:22.7	Don't we could talk about power.
1:24.9	Yeah, very timely, isn't it?
1:26.6	Yeah, it is.
1:28.1	Can you please start by defining what you mean by power?
1:31.8	Yeah, so very simply by power I and in the social scientific field
1:37.1	mean your capacity to influence another person, your capacity to change their minds, their actions, or their feelings.
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