Social Power Lab

Social Power Lab explores how power shapes all human social interactions—from interpersonal relationships to geopolitics. Hosted by Vokes Leadership Group Partners, each episode draws on decades of research in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Social Neuroscience to reveal how power operates in workplace dynamics, the formation of trust, the roots of conflict, and how it's abused by those with dark personality traits. We explore practical strategies for developing your own social power while protecting yourself from those motivated to exploit and abuse others with their social power. By listening each week, you'll come to see the world with a renewed clarity and develop a tool kit to optimize your ability to effectively grow and leverage your own power in all facets of your personal and professional life. For academics, the model we outline offers a new lens for examining history, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, and social psychology.