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Powerlessness revisited : = Can we draw inferences for the powerless from what we know about the powerful?

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正題名/作者:	Powerlessness revisited :/
其他題名:	Can we draw inferences for the powerless from what we know about the powerful?
作者:	Schaerer, Michael.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (164 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-06A.
標題:	Social psychology. -
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ISBN:	9780355506396

Powerlessness revisited : = Can we draw inferences for the powerless from what we know about the powerful?
Schaerer, Michael.

Powerlessness revisited :Can we draw inferences for the powerless from what we know about the powerful? - 1 online resource (164 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--INSEAD (France and Singapore), 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Despite the vast amount of research on the powerful, we know relatively little about how the powerless think, feel, and behave. This is an important drawback because the effects of power may not be linear, current study designs do not allow drawing accurate inferences about low power, and people find themselves more often in powerless than in powerful positions. To address these issues, this dissertation takes the perspective of the powerless across different organizational contexts such as objectification, negotiations, and risk-taking. Chapter I documents how a lack of systematic research on powerlessness led to an insufficient understanding of its consequences. This essay challenges the widely-held belief that low power is merely a complement of high power and argues that powerlessness is also in need of explanation. I propose a theoretical framework that predicts when high and low power lead to opposite versus similar effects. An experiment provides an initial test of the idea that both high and low power can sometimes lead to similar consequences. Overall, this essay provides a better understanding of powerlessness by delineating its similarities to and differences from powerfulness and makes theoretical and methodological recommendations for future power research. Chapter II examines powerlessness in the context of distributive negotiations. A series of experiments challenge the belief that because having a lot of power (i.e., a strong alternative) leads to the most profitable outcome, having no power (i.e., no alternative) leads to the least profitable outcome. I show that weak alternatives can serve as salient anchors and weigh down negotiators first offers and final agreements. In contrast, negotiators without alternatives are not constrained by the low anchor of an alternative and, consequently, are liberated to negotiate more ambitiously and achieve more profitable outcomes than those with some power. Thus, the consequences of having no power do not automatically follow from the consequences of having high power. Chapter III revisits the assumption that having power promotes risky behavior and proposes that both the powerful and the powerless take more risk, depending on how they conceptualize risk-taking. In a meta-analysis of published research, I find that the relationship between power and risk-taking is not linear as previously assumed. I then propose a new framework suggesting that risk-taking can either be conceptualized as an affordance of power (people take more risk because they have the skills to do so successfully) or a pathway to power (people take more risk because they need to). When risk-taking is conceptualized as an affordance of power, I predict a positive relationship between power and risk taking such that the powerful take the most risk. However, when risk-taking is conceptualized as a pathway to power, I predict a negative relationship between power and risk taking such that the powerless take the most risk. Three experiments provide support for these predictions.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355506396Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Social psychology.
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