In 2015, Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno used taxpayer dollars to shut down local roads so he could take a joy ride in an Aston Martin car that he purchased for $2.3 million.
There’s a piece from stanford and harvard business review (of all places). I couldn’t find the original studies on academia.edu after a couple minutes of searching but maybe you’ll have better luck. I think there’s a behind the bastards podcast episode about it too.
https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/how-power-erodes-empathy-and-steps-we-can-take-rebuild-it
https://hbr.org/2015/04/becoming-powerful-makes-you-less-empathetic
There’s a piece from stanford and harvard business review (of all places). I couldn’t find the original studies on academia.edu after a couple minutes of searching but maybe you’ll have better luck. I think there’s a behind the bastards podcast episode about it too.