Power implications of touch in male?Female relationships

Summerhayes, Diana L.; Suchner, Robert W.

doi:10.1007/bf00288381

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“…The studies reviewed above, which investigated touching behavior and perceived power (Goldberg & Katz, 1990;Major & Heslin, 1982;Summerhayes & Suchner, 1978), provide a useful example to consider. One's touching of another individual might indicate to observers that one can act according to one's own volition, whereas reciprocation implies that the initiator's actions determine one's own behavior.…”

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“…People tend to judge expressed anger (Fabes & Eisenberg, 1992;Tiedens, 2001) and more postural expansion, bodily shifting, and gesturing as indicative of elevated hierarchical standing (for a review, see Hall et al, 2005). Also, observers infer that individuals who initiate touching their interaction partners are more powerful than those who either reciprocate or do not reciprocate others' touch (Goldberg & Katz, 1990;Major & Heslin, 1982;Summerhayes & Suchner, 1978).…”

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Seeing power in action: The roles of deliberation, implementation, and action in inferences of power

Magee

2009

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Section: Inferring Power From Action Orientationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Seeing power in action: The roles of deliberation, implementation, and action in inferences of power

Magee

2009

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Seventy items, taken from earlier attitudinal research (Hansen & Hansen, 1988;Mulac, 1976;Snyder et al, 1977;Summerhayes & Suchner, 1978;Weaver, 1987), were combined to create 7-point, bipolar-adjective partner assessments that tapped a wide range of attitudes. Items, such as "sexual permissiveness" and "sexual openness," that might contribute to a measure of partner's sexual availability were added by the researchers.…”

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Men's interactions with women after viewing sexually explicit films: Does degradation make a difference?

Jansma

Linz

Mulac

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Communication Monographs

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Short-term exposure to nonviolent sexual media stimuli can produce cognitive changes in men, which, in turn, can affect their attitudes toward women. This study sought to build on past research by reliably distinguishing between (a) sexually explicit and non-sexual films and (b) sexually explicit films that are either degrading or non-degrading to women. We tested whether men's viewing of these materials affects their judgment of women in subsequent face-to-face interactions. Sex-typed and non sex-typed men (Bem, 1974) viewed one of three equally stimulating film stimuli determined by an independent set of viewers to be: (a) sexually explicit and degrading, (b) sexually explicit and non-degrading, or (c) non-sexual film. After viewing, the men interacted with women and then evaluated their partners' intellectual competence, sexual interest, sexual attractiveness, and sexual permissiveness. Women rated the men's sexual interest, dominance, and their own feelings of degradation during the interaction. No effects for film exposure alone were found for any of these variables, and no interaction effects between film and partners' sex-role orientation were found for women's evaluations of their partners. However, men's sex-role orientation moderated film effects for men's evaluations of their female partners' intellectual competence and sexual interest. These findings are discussed in terms of their consistency with other studies and the potentially negative social implications for everyday male-female interactions.

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“…A third limitation is that as a consequence of questions about the definition of power, assessments of power are often problematic and confusing: They not only include items about StrengtWweakness (Summerhayes & Suchner, 1978) and influence (Dovidio & Ellyson, 1982) but often allow respondents to define the words "power" and "powerful" subjectively (Burgoon,199 1). In addition, some researchers have measured power by using scales having one or two items (cf.…”

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“…Examples of nonverbal behaviors are gaze direction, facial expression, hand and body gestures, posture, and postural adjustments. Although nonverbal cues are often isolated for experimental purposes (e.g., Summerhayes & Suchner, 1978), most nonverbal behaviors occur in patterns (Burgoon, 1991;Harper, 1985).…”

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