Just saw this great article, seemed like it'd be right up this sub's alley. It refers to a paper written by Alice Lee et al, with such salient points like:
- People with more power express less gratitude to others than lower-power individuals when they receive a favor;
- People with more power actually feel less gratitude about the favors they receive than individuals with less power;
- People with less power feel and express more gratitude than higher-power individuals due to experiencing increased concern about interpersonal relations;
- People with more power who receive favors feel and express less gratitude than lower-power favor recipients due to an increased sense of psychological entitlement.
Sometimes science has to prove what we already know!