Finally , there is an experimentation that can fill me with ambition . A grouping of workers was given an insufficient cookie supply . ( I acknowledge . Disgusting . It ’s like a crummier edition of the Stanford Prison Experiment . ) And pretend who catch more than their share .
In an experimentation about power moral force , researchers separate bookman into groups of three and had them work together on a technical newspaper . Although all three students were working , one was mark as the “ foreman . ” And here ’s where it gets twisted . Someone add in a plate of cookies that could not be divided evenly . Five biscuit were cater for three people .
Everyone took a cookie . There were no fools in those group . It was rarified for anyone to corrode the last cookie , as to eat that cookie was to traverse one person in the grouping the pleasure of eating a second cookie . The ceremonious civilized thing to do is to deny two people the pleasance of eating a 2nd cookie , by leaving the last cookie on the home base . However , there is no formula against eating the second - to - last cookie . The only dubiousness is , who would get to it first ?
The research worker found that , most of the sentence , the “ honcho ” would eat that second cookie . Not only that , but the boss would eat it in a “ disinhibited ” way – sass comparatively candid , making relatively trashy smacking noise , eyes gleaming with malicious pleasure . I may be make that last one up . The compass point is , power corrupts . And in corrupts in such a way that the knock-down one gets the last ( actually edible ) cookie . So I ’m for it .
[ ViaThe Cookie Experiment . ]
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