Effect of audience boredom on power-hungry-persons [Podcast 54]

Aggressive boredom and power-hungry people dominate this week’s Improbable Research podcast.

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This week, Marc Abrahams  —with dramatic readings by Jean Berko Gleason — tells about:

How the power-hungry respond to aggressive boredom — Fodor, Eugene M., and David P. Wick (2009). ‘Need for Power and Affective Response to Negative Audience Reaction to an Extemporaneous Speech.’ Journal of Research in Personality, vol. 43: pp. 721–26.

The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.

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