X-Message-Number: 30488 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: why important people never get interested in cryonics Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:26:49 -0000 I wonder if this may be of assistance in the debate on why important people never get interested in cryonics: People feeling powerful don't listen, study finds Feb. 15, 2008 Courtesy Ohio State University and World Science staff Don't both er try ing to per suade your boss of a new idea while he's feel ing the pow er of his po si tion, new re search sug gests-he's not lis ten ing. "Pow er ful peo ple have con fi dence in what they are think ing. Wheth er their thoughts are pos i tive or neg a tive to ward an idea, that po si tion is go ing to be hard to change," said Rich ard Pet ty, co-au thor of the study and a psy cholo g ist at Ohio State Uni ver s ity. Peo ple tend to dis re gard new opin ions when they are in the glow of pow er, a study has found. more on: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080215_power -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=30488