Across dozens of experiments, Dacher Keltner and his colleagues found that when people felt powerful, they became worse at reading other people's emotions and imagining life from someone else's point of view.

Extreme wealth literally damages a person's brain's ability to understand other people.

In a lab experiment, the person assigned high power was more likely to take the fourth cookie from a plate of five chocolate chip cookies.

If individuals live in halls of power and primarily know people with ample resources or power, their view becomes blinkered in a specific, repeatable, scientific way.