[goofingaround]

The research does not support this article (surprise).

- The researchers primed subjects on "power" by having the subject write an essay about a high, neutral, or low power situation. It's not clear that the intervention maps to what the article calls power.

- The researchers did not find statistically significant differences between the low power group and the neutral group. They also did not find significant differences between the neutral group and the high power group. If the neutral group varied this much, are we tracking meaningful differences?

- Is reduced mirroring "damage"? Is reduced mirroring necessarily undesirable? We have no idea.

https://www.oveo.org/fichiers/power-changes-how-the-brain-re...

[joe_the_user]

For good or ill, this article isn't based on single paper but a range of papers from a group of authors.

It's still legitimate to critique the approach but I don't think you can simply pick apart a single paper to do that.