The results, published in the journal The Leadership Quarterly, were unequivocal. With increasing power – that is number of subordinate under the leader or the number of decision choices available to the leader – leaders were inclined to look out for their own self-interest at the expense of those for whom they were responsible. Even those who have honest and socially-acceptable attitudes at the moment of their accession to a position of leadership rather easily changed their moral perspectives once they got a taste of power.