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Importance of a sense of control and the physiological benefits of leadership

I write amid the frenzy of the September campaign season, when the airways are filled with politicians saying the same thing: They are willing to sacrifice themselves, to take on the terrible burdens of power and privilege, just to help us all. Alas, these individuals seem to have a certain outdated view about the physiological correlates of leadership, and a fascinating paper in PNAS by Sherman et al. (1) emphasizes this point.