If Dr Lammers and Dr Galinsky are right, the sense which some powerful people seem to have that different rules apply to them is not just a convenient smoke screen.
Researchers at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, led by Joris Lammers, looked at the behavior of more than 1, 500 professionals and found that women who are higher up the corporate ladder are more likely to cheat (just as higher-status men are).