Think Powerful People Have It All Over You? Not When It Comes to Making a Decision on Something That's Ambiguous.
Who's the most powerful person in your world? Your boss? Your spouse? Your mother? If you picked any one of these, relax. When powerful people are faced with ambiguous circumstances, they're often at a loss, according to newswise.com. Faced with ambivalence, powerful people are less decisive. Say what? The web site reports that, although powerful people often tend to decide and act quickly, they become more indecisive than others when the decisions are toughest to make, a new study suggests, suggests a new study published in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Researchers found that when people who feel powerful also feel ambivalent about a decision – torn between two equally good or bad choices – they actually have a harder time taking action than people who feel less powerful. That’s different than when powerful people are confronted by a simpler decision in which most evidenc...