“why do famous people we admire end up being bad?”: research finds that experimental manipulations of power make people less empathic. Power changes people for the worse, regardless of the values that got you there. belonging.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-...#psychscisky#socialpsychology#psychology

UC Berkeley professor Dacher Keltner explains 'How Power Makes People Selfish'

Whenever I hear about another powerful person behaving badly, I think about this research. Social Psychology teaches us that we overemphasize the role of personality relative to situational factors in attributing behavior. A highly relevant situation is having power. Character may not matter much.