Most people become stressed when lying, but new research shows that people with power feel just fine when lying — and are better at getting away with it.
Carney emphasizes that these results don’t mean that all people in high positions find lying easier: people need only feel powerful, regardless of the real power they have or their position in a hierarchy. “There are plenty of CEOs who act like low-power people and there are plenty of people at every level in organizations who feel very high power,” Carney says. “It can cross rank, every strata of society, any job.”
See Powerful Lies by Columbia Business School, January 22, 2010
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