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versie: 28 februari 2017 - beginpagina Droog
 Bloemen van het kwaad De invloed van macht op het brein over het god-complex oftewel het machtsvirus James Fallon Ph.D. The Mind of a Dictator. Exploring the minds of psychopaths and dictators. Psychology Today, 11-11- 2011. (...) "So, what binds dictators across history and geography? What traits do they share? To begin with, let's examine the general characteristics of psychopaths. (...) Though not a dictator, I would like to have scanned the brain and tested the DNA of Osama bin Laden. He exhibits many traits typical of classic psychopathic dictators--grandiosity, charm, vengeance, vanity, and sadism. With his abrupt maritime burial, we missed a tremendous opportunity to study the inner workings of an evil mind." (...) https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-psychopath-inside/201111/the-mind-dictator Ian H. Robertson Ph.D. The Winner Effect. The North Korean Dictator Is Behaving Rationally. Kim Jong-Un is sane but absolute power can alter the brains' risk calculation. Psychology today. 05-04-2013. (...) "So, while Kim Jong-Un was a sane adolescent, power is such a strong drug that it will have changed him fundamentally. Excessive, unconstrained power makes people feel over-confident, blind to risk, inclined to treat other people as objects, tunnel-visioned, narcissistic and protected from anxiety. These are all real effects, as biologically driven as those caused by any powerful drug. All gang leaders experience these effects. But there are two other symptoms of power which should give us special pause. The first is that excessive power so increases dopamine activity in the front part of the brain that it distorts rational judgment of cost and benefit: for instance. Hitler’s military decisions on the Russian front were an example of this." (...) Nayef Al-Rodhan (Senior Associate Member, University of Oxford). The neurochemistry of power has implications for political change. The Conversation, 28-02-2014. (...) "Power, especially absolute and unchecked power, is intoxicating. Its effects occur at the cellular and neurochemical level. They are manifested behaviourally in a variety of ways, ranging from heightened cognitive functions to lack of inhibition, poor judgement, extreme narcissism, perverted behaviour, and gruesome cruelty. The primary neurochemical involved in the reward of power that is known today is dopamine, the same chemical transmitter responsible for producing a sense of pleasure. Power activates the very same reward circuitry in the brain and creates an addictive “high” in much the same way as drug addiction. Like addicts, most people in positions of power will seek to maintain the high they get from power, sometimes at all costs. When withheld, power – like any highly addictive agent – produces cravings at the cellular level that generate strong behavioural opposition to giving it up." (...) Ben Tiggelaar. Macht maakt je een sociopaat. NRC Handelsblad. 14-05-2016 DROOG- tijdschrift voor diepgravende onderzoeks-journalistiek. Droog, onafhankelijk en ter zake. Over zaken uit heden en verleden die er toe doen of deden. Zaken die meer aandacht vragen dan in een artikel van een of twee papieren pagina’s gegeven kan worden.
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