Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of social power.

Chen, Serena; Lee-Chai, Annette Y.; Bargh, John A.

doi:10.1037//0022-3514.80.2.173

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“…Power was semantically primed using word-searching puzzles (Chen, Lee-Chai, & Bargh, 2001). In both puzzles, participants were instructed to find and encircle twelve words hidden in a grid of letters and laid out vertically or horizontally.…”

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Feelings of power lead people to take sides with other powerful parties

Lammers

Yang

2012

Revista de Psicología Social

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It has often been noted that power has various self-reinforcing effects, in the sense that it leads people to support the interests of other powerful people and harm the interests of the powerless. In the current article we investigate this in a fundamental manner and show that the experience of power makes people more inclined to side with parties that are higher in the hierarchy and against parties that are lower in that hierarchy. Two studies demonstrate that people who experience elevated power side with parties higher in the hierarchy and against parties lower in the hierarchy. A third experiment identifies an important moderator: if people sense their power is unfair and illegitimate, this effect is blocked. These results extend our understanding of the effects of power on moral thinking to actual side taking with one party against another in an interpersonal, moral conflict.

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Feelings of power lead people to take sides with other powerful parties

Lammers

Yang

2012

Revista de Psicología Social

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“…Unless they are specifically rewarded for acting fairly, a high workload prevents leaders from enacting fairness [38]. High (versus low) power strengthens the link between central goals and behavior [39,40]. This effect of power is relevant to procedural fairness enactment: having high (versus low) power makes leaders behave less procedurally fair, but only if they lack concern for others as a central dispositional goal [41].…”

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“…It is well-established that power strengthens the link between central dispositional goals and behavior, making, for instance, prosocially oriented individuals act in more prosocial ways and selfish individuals act more selfishly (e.g. [39,40]). Regarding leadership, this effect of power may even have downstream consequences for actions of collectives.…”

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Power and leadership

Dijke

2020

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Power boosts reliance on preferred processing styles

2016

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A significant amount of research has proposed that power leads to heuristic and category based information processing, however, the evidence is often contradictory. We propose the novel idea that power magnifies chronically accessible information processing styles which can contribute to either systematic or heuristic processing. We examine heuristic (vs. systematic) processing in association with the need for closure. The results of three studies and a meta-analysis supported these claims. Power increased heuristic information processing, manifested in the recognition of schema consistent information, in the use of stereotypical information to form impressions and decreased the complexity of categorical representations, but only for those participants who, by default, processed information according to simplified heuristics, i.e., are high in need for closure. For those who prefer this processing style less, i.e., low in need for closure, power led to the opposite effects. These findings suggest that power licenses individuals to rely on their dominant information processing strategies, and that power increases interpersonal variability.

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Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of social power.

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Feelings of power lead people to take sides with other powerful parties

Feelings of power lead people to take sides with other powerful parties

Power and leadership

Power boosts reliance on preferred processing styles

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