SciScience Experiment Finds that Powerful People Don’t Practice What They Preach

Apr 22, 2010 5:51 PM

Science Experiment Finds that Powerful People Don’t Practice What They Preach

by makestraight

An excerpt from an article from Sciencedaily.com “Why Powerful People — Many of Whom Take a Moral High Ground — Don’t Practice What They Preach”:

Researchers sought to determine whether power inspires hypocrisy, the tendency to hold high standards for others while performing morally suspect behaviors oneself. The research finds that power makes people stricter in moral judgment of others – while being less strict of their own behavior.

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According to our research, power and influence can cause a severe disconnect between public judgment and private behavior, and as a result, the powerful are stricter in their judgment of others while being more lenient toward their own actions.

I am asking for the same accountability over Pastor Ed Kang and Kelly Kang as they did of Becky Kim of Berkland. I’m asking for this because so far, it has led to spiritual abuse by all 3 people mentioned upon their members, and it has been indoctrinated to staff members below them.

And such accountability is biblical, because we’re all sinners, and power corrupts us.