REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE POWERFUL?

A new study finds that people who did just that were the most impressive to independent evaluators. In one experiment, two groups of volunteers were asked to write a job-application letter—but members of one were asked to recall an occasion when they had power, while those in the other were asked to recall when they lacked it. A second, similar experiment primed three groups—powerful, neutral and powerless—before an admission interview for business school.
"Overall," the researchers write, "merely asking participants to remember a personal experience with power dramatically affected the impressions that interviewers had of them."

"Power Gets the Job: Priming Power Improves Interview Outcomes," Joris Lammers, David Dubois, Derek D. Rucker, Adam D. Galinsky, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology