The course began as an experiment ten years ago, has become one of the Stanford MBA program’s most popular electives, and inspired her forthcoming book, Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe (Currency/Penguin Random House, 2020). An innovator in the classroom, her course “Acting with Power” is a highly unusual collaboration between social scientists and professional actors that focuses on the leadership challenge of internalizing unfamiliar roles. Professor Gruenfeld has taught courses on groups and power for more than 25 years. She is currently most intrigued by the effects of having power while feeling powerless, and by the related and surprisingly common preference for ranking second-not first-in social groups. The author of numerous scientific articles on power and group behavior, Gruenfeld’s most recent work explains when and why power corrupts, and shows that power affects a wide range of social and organizational behaviors, from the reasoning of Supreme Court judges, to perspective-taking and helping behavior, to objectification and sexual aggression. Deborah Gruenfeld, Ph.D., the Joseph McDonald chaired professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, is a social and organizational psychologist who studies the psychology of power and powerlessness.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |