“…Finally, exhausted, over-worked scientists may experience a depletion of personal or psychological resources [26] and react harshly to provocation from subordinates through conflict or poor performance [9]. Each of these antecedents suggests that power differentials between PIs and graduate students or postdocs, for example, exacerbate the likelihood that those in positions of authority may unleash their wrath toward those in less powerful positions [15,16,27]. The unique aspects of science, which require focused work on a series of studies or experiments that may eventually pay…”