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Benderev, Chris. “When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart.” NPR, NPR, 10 Aug. 2013, www.npr.org/2013/08/10/210686255/a-sense-of-power-can-do-a-number-on-your-brain.

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My thematic statement was "power can change people for the best and for the worst. This relates to Animal Farm because Napoleon seized power for himself, which shut off his heart. The research relates to the science behind how the power gets to your head. This all ties around Napoleons leadership and how it ended as a negative. This all ties up with the video of how Lotzo took power of the daycare, and seized power, and also ended in a negative to the daycare.

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This relates to Animal Farm because Napoleon and Squealer took advantage of the animals, giving them all the power for themselves.

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Napoleon's heart shut off, as his head took over. At this point on he didn't feel for the animals anymore, but all for himself.

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"When power goes to you head, it may shut out your heart."

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https://youtu.be/YyDJafzuUK4

This video relates to my research because the power of the bullies got to their heads, which shut down their hearts.

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Mr. Waternoose was a very mean leader, and he had all the power of the whole town. He did stuff for his benefit, not for the people working in his place.

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https://youtu.be/gEfwuYwdhpo

In the video, Ken literally goes out and says, "Its Lotzo, he's made us into a pyramid and hes put himself on top," a lot like Napoleon and his crew did to the animals.

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As Clover looks around at the pigs faces, she cannot believe what has happened to them. Clover knows that the pigs having as much power as they did, changed them for the worst.

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When even the tiniest bit of power has find its way to you, it may dramatically change you. In my research, I found that when a person feels powerful, it may shut off your feelings towards other people. This is called the mirror system. The mirror system acts as you feeling for somebody else, or getting inside of their head to feel what they would be feeling. They did an experiment with powerful people and powerless people. They showed them a video of different people squeezing a rubber ball. The video activated the mirror system in the brain, as the scientists found out the less powerful people felt more for the people with the rubber ball, as the powerful people felt for them less. This all ties to Animal Farm because once Napoleon gained all the power, felt felt less about what the animals wanted and more of what he wanted.

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Even the smallest dose of power can change a person. You've probably seen it. Someone gets a promotion or a bit of fame and then, suddenly, they're a little less friendly to the people beneath them.

So here's a question that may seem too simple: Why?

If you ask a psychologist, he or she may tell you that the powerful are simply too busy. They don't have the time to fully attend to their less powerful counterparts.

But if you ask Sukhvinder Obhi, a neuroscientist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, he might give you another explanation: Power fundamentally changes how the brain operates.

Obhi and his colleagues, Jeremy Hogeveen and Michael Inzlicht, have a new study showing evidence to support that claim.

Obhi and his fellow researchers randomly put participants in the mindset of feeling either powerful or powerless. They asked the powerless group to write a diary entry about a time they depended on others for help. The powerful group wrote entries about times they were calling the shots.

Then, everybody watched a simple video. In it, an anonymous hand squeezes a rubber ball a handful of times - sort of monotonously. While the video ran, Obhi's team tracked the participants' brains, looking at a special region called the mirror system.
Where Empathy Begins
The mirror system is important because it contains neurons that become active both when you squeeze a rubber ball and when you watch someone else squeeze a rubber ball. It is the same thing with picking up a cup of coffee, hitting a baseball, or flying a kite. Whether you do it or someone else does, your mirror system activates. In this small way, the mirror system places you inside a stranger's head.

Furthermore, because our actions are linked to deeper thoughts - like beliefs and intentions - you may also begin to empathize with what motivates another person's actions.

"When I watch somebody picking up a cup of coffee, the mirror system activates the representations in my brain that would be active if I was picking up a cup of coffee," Obhi explains. "And because those representations are connected in my brain to the intentions that would normally activate them, you can get activation of the intention. So you can figure out, 'Hey, this person wants to drink coffee.' "

Obhi's team wanted to see if bestowing a person with a feeling of power or powerlessness would change how the mirror system responds to someone else performing a simple action.
Feeling Power Over Others
It turns out, feeling powerless boosted the mirror system - people empathized highly. But, Obhi says, "when people were feeling powerful, the signal wasn't very high at all."

So when people felt power, they really did have more trouble getting inside another person's head.

"What we're finding is power diminishes all varieties of empathy," says Dacher Keltner, a social psychologist at University of California, Berkeley, not involved in the new study. He says these results fit a trend within psychological research.

"Whether you're with a team at work [or] your family dinner, all of that hinges on how we adapt our behaviors to the behaviors of other people," he says. "And power takes a bite out of that ability, which is too bad."

The good news, Keltner says, is an emerging field of research that suggests powerful people who begin to forget their subordinates can be coached back to their compassionate selves.

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When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart

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subscribe to Short Wave podcast Even the smallest dose of power can change a person. You've probably seen it. Someone gets a promotion or a bit of fame and then, suddenly, they're a little less friendly to the people beneath them. So here's a question that may seem too simple: Why?

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This picture relates to my research because the teacher has all the power in the room. Therefore, he cares less about what they think or like and more about what he believes is right.

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Napoleon, the leader of the Animal Farm, power got to his head which ended up ending very badly for the far,

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This picture represents how the animals blindly followed Napoleon which looked like a good idea at first, but in the end was the complete opposite.

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"Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing?" (140)

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The start of the idea of rebelling was Old Major, a wise old boar that would die two days later. After the animals did not get fed due to the mean farmer named Mr. Jones, they decided it was a good time to rebel and follow Old Majors orders. Once they got control of the farm, two pigs named Snowball and Napoleon took power for the farm. As time goes on, Mr. Jones comes back to try and retake the farm back, but thanks to Snowball's wise tactics, they win in the fight that was later named "The Battle of the Cowshed." Later, Napoleon who was thirsty for power, drove Snowball off the farm because he was worried of his intelligence against his beliefs. Time went on as Napoleon, Squealer, and the dogs took all the power in the farm for themselves. Boxer, who was the hardest working animal on the farm, helped rebuild the windmill, but after he was too weak to work, Napoleon sent him off to be slaughtered. The finishing scene of the book is the other animals watching from afar, as they watch Mr. Pilkington and Napoleon playing a game of cards. The animals could not quite tell if Napoleon was a human or still a pig, due to how much he has changed.

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Power can change people for the best and the worst.