Power and revenge

Strelan, Peter; Weick, Mario; Vasiljevic, Milica

doi:10.1111/bjso.12044

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“…Furthermore, work by Stamkou, van Kleef, Homan, and Galinsky () suggests that the motivation to achieve hierarchical differentiation can affect individuals' responses to transgressions in low power distance cultural settings (see also Mooijman, van Dijk, Ellemers, & van Dijk, ). This is consistent with studies conducted with British and Australian samples showing that powerholders not accustomed to having power are inclined to seek retaliation against perpetrators (Strelan, Weick, & Vasiljevic, ). Future studies are needed to elucidate mechanisms and boundary conditions that determine individuals' responses to low‐ and high‐ranking perpetrators in different cultural settings.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Cultural variation in individuals' responses to incivility by perpetrators of different rank: The mediating role of descriptive and injunctive norms

Moon

Weick

Üskül

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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The present research sought to establish how cultural settings create a normative context that determines individuals' reactions to subtle forms of mistreatment. Two experimental studies (n = 449) examined individuals' perceptions of high‐ and low‐ranking individuals' incivility in two national (Study 1) and two organizational (Study 2) cultural settings that varied in power distance. Consistent across studies, the uncivil actions of a high‐ranking perpetrator were deemed more acceptable than the uncivil actions of a low‐ranking perpetrator in the large power distance cultural settings, but not in the small power distance cultural settings. Differing injunctive norms (acceptability), but not descriptive norms (perceived likelihood of occurrence), contributed to cultural variations in the level of discomfort caused by incivility. In addition, perceptions of descriptive and injunctive norms coincided, but differed markedly in their associations with discomfort. We discuss the practical and theoretical implications of these findings.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Cultural variation in individuals' responses to incivility by perpetrators of different rank: The mediating role of descriptive and injunctive norms

Moon

Weick

Üskül

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Relative to other emotions, angry prosodies elicited strong amplitudes and a distinct pattern of cortical activity in low power, but not in high power individuals. Anger is a dominance‐signaling cue, and as such the finding that power reduces the processing of acoustic anger signals is particularly intriguing, albeit consistent with recent evidence that suggests high power can act as a buffer and reduce individuals' sensitivity to hostile behaviors (Strelan, Weick, & Vasiljevic, ).…”

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confidence: 61%

Early and late brain signatures of emotional prosody among individuals with high versus low power

Paulmann

Üskül

2016

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Psychophysiology 2Using event9related brain potentials (ERPs), we explored the relationship between social power and emotional prosody processing. In particular, we investigated differences at early and late processing stages between individuals primed with high or low power. Comparable to previously published findings from non9primed participants, individuals primed with low power displayed differentially modulated P2 amplitudes in response to different emotional prosodies, whereas participants primed with high power failed to do so. Similarly, participants primed with low power showed differentially modulated amplitudes in response to different emotional prosodies at a later processing stage (late ERP component), whereas participants primed with high power did not. These ERP results suggest that high versus low power leads to emotional prosody processing differences at the early stage associated with emotional salience detection and at a later stage associated with more in9depth processing of emotional stimuli.Word count: 138

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“…For example, people higher on the social ladder-who may be higher in both achievement and power values -view justice as requiring more punishment and less rehabilitation (Kraus & Keltner, 2013), and people motivated to enforce status boundaries with criminal offenders more strongly endorse retribution (Gerber & Jackson, 2013). People higher in power are more vengeful (Strelan, Weick, & Vasiljevic, 2014) and punitive (van Prooijen, Coffeng, & Vermeer, 2014), and people higher in power values more strongly support retribution (Okimoto, Wenzel, & Feather, 2012), and are less forgiving (McKee & Feather, 2008;Strelan, Feather, & McKee, 2011). In addition, leaders' power and status concerns contribute to their punitive tendencies (Mooijman, van Dijk, Ellemers, & Van Dijk, 2015).…”

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Pride and punishment: Entitled people's self‐promoting values motivate hierarchy‐restoring retribution

Redford

Ratliff

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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What is the purpose of punishment? The current research shows that for entitled people—those with inflated self‐worth—justice is about maintaining societal hierarchies. Entitled people more strongly hold self‐enhancing values (power and achievement; Studies 1 and 3). They are also more likely, when thinking about justice for offenders, to adopt a hierarchy‐based justice orientation: Perceptions that crime threatens hierarchies, motives to restore those hierarchies, and support for retribution (Studies 2 and 3). Further, the relationship of entitlement to justice orientation is mediated by self‐enhancing values when entitlement is measured (Study 3) and manipulated (Studies 4, 5 and 6). Together these studies suggest that entitlement—and the resultant preoccupation with one's status—facilitates a view of justice as a hierarchy‐based transaction: one where criminal offenders and their victims exchange power and status. These findings reveal the self‐enhancing and hierarchy‐focused nature of entitlement, as well as the roots of retribution in concerns about status, power, and hierarchies.

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Power and revenge

Cited by 41 publications

References 68 publications

Cultural variation in individuals' responses to incivility by perpetrators of different rank: The mediating role of descriptive and injunctive norms

Cultural variation in individuals' responses to incivility by perpetrators of different rank: The mediating role of descriptive and injunctive norms

Early and late brain signatures of emotional prosody among individuals with high versus low power

Pride and punishment: Entitled people's self‐promoting values motivate hierarchy‐restoring retribution

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