Featuring Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University, this program explores the nature, sources, possibilities, and implications of power and considers such issues as balance, influence, personal responsibility, and abuses of power. It outlines the five sources of power as identified by John French, Jr., and Bertram Raven (reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, referent power, and expert power); defines the possibilities of power as being legitimate or illegitimate, good or evil, enabling or disabling, and direct or indirect; and discusses normative and informational influences and their relationship to power.

The program examines balance and equity, shows how the maintenance of power status quo leads to victim degradation and the overvaluation of the fortunate, and highlights the connection between narcissism and power. It looks at research studies by Dovidio; Borgh; Thibaut and Kelley; Michaels, Edwards, and Acock; Poppen and Segal; Specher and Felmlee; Lerner; Bulman and Wortman; and Hill and Youssef and considers such texts as Phil Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect, which explores the connections between his Stanford Prison Experiment and the crimes committed at the Abu Ghraib prison.