If you made Jimmy believe, feel, or do what you had wanted him to believe, feel, or do, or prevented him from what he had wanted to believe, feel, or do, you would have then have exercised power over him in that particular episode. One person exerts power over another to the degree that he is able to exact compliance as desired. No power is exhibited without an empowering response. The techniques of eliciting empowering responses of the kind and at the same time desired from targeted individuals constitute the craft of power. R. G. H. Siu, The Craft of Power .
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The work of H. J. Eysenck is characterized by a tough-minded disdain for existing preconceptions and convictions concerning personality and a readiness to study behavior on a large scale, using techniques in areas where they have not customarily been applied. He combines the traditional excellence of British psychologists in the use of quantitative techniques with an interest in the study of phenomena of personality in a psychiatric setting. This attempted synthesis of the procedural sophistication of the psychometrician with the insights of the clinician represents a valuable and distinctive emphasis. Eysenck has shown a preference for conceptions of behavior that are simple and relatively operational. He is convinced that in the long run theory and experiment must go arm and arm, as theories which carry the excess baggage of undefined terms must eventually perish.